The award-winning Urban Design Certificate program returns to Ottawa from September 18–21, 2013 to offer professional development courses in partnership with the City of Ottawa.
Enhance your urban design and place-making skills through intensive courses taught by urban design practitioners with a wealth of experience. You'll have the opportunity to network with like-minded mid-career professionals from municipalities throughout Canada.
The City Program has been providing education in urban design for over 10 years and has offered courses in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, and now Ottawa.
Take the following courses individually or as part of the Urban Design Certificate program:
- Urban Design: Designing Integrated Neighbourhoods, September 18–19, 2013
- Urban Design: Public Realm, September 20–21, 2013
What our participants say:
“The Urban Design Program gives the tools, the language and the confidence necessary to articulate what needs to happen when evaluating new development, and directing where change needs to occur.”
—Paula Ainsley, Principal Planner, City of Edmonton
“The Urban Design Program has played a key role in my professional development by providing me with the tools to take my urban design skills to the next level. The instructors are first-rate and the participants are all passionate professionals committed to excellence in urban design. This program is a must for anyone involved in the planning, design and building of communities.”
—Juan Estepa, Coordinator of Landscape Design, City of Regina
“For someone who has spent most of his career in policy planning, the opportunity to engage with active designers and tackle hands-on physical design problems helped fill a gap in my skill set and reconnect me with what brought me to planning in the first place: physical planning and design aimed at creating more livable communities.”
—Mark Hornell, Assistant Director – Community Planning, City of Victoria
