CITY760
Urban Design Meets Real Estate Development: Advancing Shared Goals
Urban design and real estate development often occur in silos. Urban designers shape the physical layout and public spaces of cities and neighborhoods while real estate developers create higher economic value and address market demands. In this course, you’ll learn how collaborating across these fields can produce gains for communities and developers alike. By integrating these processes, you can increase project viability and real estate values, advance sales, create benefits for communities and gain faster approvals with community support. Together, you can create soulful communities that are economically, ecologically and socially feasible.
Overview
Location: Online
Duration: 6 evenings
Tuition: $700 plus GST
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Upcoming Offerings
- Thu, Nov 5, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Pacific Time (virtual class)
- Thu, Nov 12, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Pacific Time (virtual class)
- Thu, Nov 19, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Pacific Time (virtual class)
- Thu, Nov 26, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Pacific Time (virtual class)
- Thu, Dec 3, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Pacific Time (virtual class)
- Thu, Dec 10, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Pacific Time (virtual class)
What you will learn
After completing this course, you’ll be able to do the following:
- Evaluate a project’s alignment between aesthetic and social goals and financial and market realities
- Select the best practices in place-keeping and place-making with their trade-offs between design and real estate development perspectives
- Develop strategies and approaches to integrate urban design and real estate development with an awareness of emerging and established design and development tools like financial modeling and artificial intelligence
- Apply case study lessons to increase project viability and extend value-added outcomes such as community benefits, financial value and climate resilience
How you will learn and be evaluated
- Lectures
- Case studies
- Collaborative exercises
- Group discussions
- Online materials
Learning Materials
No textbook is required. We will provide all course materials online.
Technical Requirements
For online courses, you will need a computer with audio and microphone that is connected to the internet. Canvas is the online system that will be used for the course. For more information and online support, visit Online Learning.
Professional Development Credits
AIBC CES participants, PIBC members and BCSLA members may self-report for continuing education learning unit consideration.