Planning for Healthy and Happy Communities
100% ONLINE
SELF-PACED
NO COST
1 hour
Summary
While a great deal of research has been done on characteristics of communities that help people be healthy, much less is known about what aspects of a community help its residents be happy.
What you'll learn:
This certificate introduces new research that investigates this question. You’ll also learn about ‘crowdsourcing’ using GPS-enabled cell phones – how a community’s residents can use technology to create data valuable to improving the community.
Module and Content:
This certificate includes a handful of modules that include short videos, readings, and an optional worksheet to test your knowledge of the material.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the elements of the neighborhood built environment that are associated with individual happiness.
- Discover ways that urban planners can provide greater opportunities for residents’ happiness in neighborhoods.
- Understand what crowdsourcing is
- Understand how crowdsourcing can be used as a tool to generate useful data for urban planning.
Who is this certificate designed for:
Geography student or related with this area.
What you'll receive:
Upon finishing this certificate, students will receive an online certificate of completion.
Meet the instructors:
Deirdre Pfeiffer, PhD
Associate Professor, SGSUP, Arizona State University
Dr. Pfeiffer earned her doctorate from the University of California Los Angeles, and is currently an Associate Professor at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on housing strategies in the U.S. relevant to an aging and diversifying society, the outcomes of the foreclosure crisis, and the relationship between suburban growth and racial equity.
Professor Pfeiffer has been a contributor to the Reinvent Phoenix collaboration, which aims to re-envision five neighborhoods around the light rail based on sustainability principles. She teaches courses on public participation in planning, housing planning and policy, and qualitative research methods.
Trisalyn Nelson, PhD
Foundation Professor, Arizona State University
Dr. Nelson is Foundation Professor at Arizona State University, and has also served there as Director of the School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning.
Prior to joining ASU in 2016, Dr. Nelson was a professor at the University of Victoria in Geography from 2005 to 2016. There she founded and directed the Spatial Pattern Analysis and Research (SPAR) Lab, was Director of the Geomatics Program, and held the Lansdowne Research Chair in Spatial Sciences. Professor Nelson’s research develops and uses spatial and spatial-temporal analyses to address applied questions in a wide range of fields from ecology to health. Currently, her research focuses on two areas: wildlife movement and active transportation.