ESRI Virtual Campus Offers Course for Urban and Regional Planning With GIS

Introduction to Urban and Regional Planning using ArcView 3.x, a course from ESRI’s Virtual Campus, incorporates hands-on exercises with fundamental urban and regional planning concepts and illustrates how geographic information system (GIS) technology can manage various urban and regional planning tasks. The six-module course teaches students how to use ArcView software to address real-world social, economic, and environmental planning problems.
Professional urban and regional planners, as well as college students interested in urban and regional planning, will be able to expand their capabilities by incorporating GIS technology into their area of study. After completing this course, students will be able to recognize different planning processes, identify planning data sets, apply effective urban management strategies using cadastral data sets and remotely sensed imagery, and establish urban land use trends.