Neighborhood Planning and New Urbanism Course

Name: Neighborhood Planning and New Urbanism Design Course
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Compare garden suburb and New Urbanism precedents to shape walkable streets, mixed uses, public spaces, and context-sensitive neighborhoods.

Neighborhood Planning and New Urbanism Course

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Duration: 1 Week
Format: Classroom
Cities: Madrid, Barcelona, Dubai, Amsterdam, Rome, Nice and more
Next session: 26 – 30 October 2026, Madrid
Average fee: 5,750 €

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Overview

Neighborhood Planning and New Urbanism Design Course is a 1-week advanced course for urban planners, architects, real estate development teams, municipal design teams, and place-making professionals who leave with a Neighborhood Planning and Urban Design Brief. Participants compare garden suburbs, planned seaside communities, and New Urbanism through street networks, blocks, mixed uses, public spaces, housing, heritage, governance, climate response, and implementation choices. Agile Leaders Training Center delivers this course on neighborhood planning and New Urbanism.

Who Should Attend

Teams responsible for neighborhood plans and urban design frameworks.
Functions responsible for real estate development and community briefs.
Professionals responsible for streets, public spaces, and mobility integration.
Teams responsible for urban heritage and planned-community conservation.
Decision-makers responsible for development governance and design review.

The course assumes participants contribute to planning, design, development, or place management and leaves out introductory drafting and building-level architectural detailing.

Departments and Industries

The course supports neighborhood planning across public planning, real estate, housing, tourism, heritage, and infrastructure development.

Urban planning and municipal design
Architecture and landscape architecture
Real estate and housing development
Transport, streets, and public-realm design
Heritage conservation, tourism, and place management

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Analyze garden suburb, seaside, and New Urbanism precedents.
Compare street, block, lot, use, and open-space structures.
Apply walkability, mixed-use, and public-realm principles.
Evaluate heritage, climate, governance, and implementation constraints.
Build a neighborhood character and connectivity framework.
Develop a Neighborhood Planning and Urban Design Brief.

Course Agenda

Day 1: Garden Suburb Precedents

Garden City and Garden Suburb Lineage Map
Sunnyside Gardens Spatial Pattern Analysis
Superblock, Courtyard, and Shared Open-Space Diagram
Housing Type and Community Structure Matrix
Historic Planned-Community Governance Review

Day 2: Seaside and New Urbanism

Seaside Regulating Plan Reading Method
Charter of the New Urbanism Principle Map
Neighborhood Center and Edge Structure
Mixed-Use and Building-Type Transect
Traditional Neighborhood Development Comparison Grid

Day 3: Streets and Public Realm

Connected Street Network Assessment
Walkable Catchment and Daily-Needs Map
Street Enclosure and Frontage Analysis
Public Space Hierarchy and Civic Anchor Plan
Transit, Parking, and Pedestrian Integration Matrix

Day 4: Adaptation and Delivery

Climate-Responsive Neighborhood Design Checklist
Local Character and Heritage Adaptation Framework
Development Code and Design Guideline Structure
Phasing, Stewardship, and Governance Model
Precedent Transfer Risk Review

Day 5: Neighborhood Design Practice

Suggested Exercise: Precedent Pattern Diagnosis
Suggested Exercise: Street and Block Network Test
Suggested Exercise: Public-Realm and Mixed-Use Review
Suggested Exercise: Climate and Heritage Adaptation Panel
Capstone Exercise: Neighborhood Planning and Urban Design Brief

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities to convert precedent lessons into context-sensitive neighborhood decisions.

Suggested activity: diagnose spatial and governance patterns in a garden suburb and a planned seaside community.
Suggested activity: test a neighborhood street network for connectivity, walkable access, frontage, and civic destinations.
Suggested activity: adapt mixed-use and public-space principles to a hot-climate development site.
Suggested activity: present a design brief linking character, heritage, implementation, and stewardship choices.

FAQs

Who suits neighborhood planning and New Urbanism design training, and what does it assume?

Planning, architecture, development, public-realm, heritage, and place-management professionals suit the training. It assumes involvement in planning or design decisions and excludes introductory drafting and detailed building design.

How does New Urbanism design differ from general urban planning training?

New Urbanism design focuses on human-scaled neighborhoods, connected streets, mixed uses, public space, diverse housing, and walkable access, while general urban planning training may cover wider policy, regional, regulatory, and land-management subjects.

What can contemporary neighborhood planning learn from garden suburbs?

Contemporary neighborhood planning can examine shared open spaces, housing relationships, pedestrian routes, community structure, stewardship, and the limits of transferring historic patterns without adapting them to present needs.

How should New Urbanism principles respond to climate and local character?

New Urbanism principles should be tested against climate, mobility behavior, landscape, building traditions, privacy, public-space use, infrastructure, and governance instead of being copied as a fixed visual style.

What makes a neighborhood urban design brief actionable?

An actionable neighborhood urban design brief defines objectives, spatial structure, street and block logic, land-use mix, public spaces, housing types, climate responses, character, governance, phasing, and review criteria.

Conclusion

Participants take back a Neighborhood Planning and Urban Design Brief linking precedent lessons, street networks, public spaces, mixed uses, housing, climate, heritage, governance, and delivery. It turns historical comparison into explicit design choices. It supports coordinated neighborhood decisions across public planning, real estate, housing, tourism, and heritage contexts.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Location	Dates	Duration	Mode	Price
Frankfurt	Week 04, 2027 25 – 29 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Johannesburg	Week 04, 2027 31 January – 4 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Montreux	Week 06, 2027 8 – 12 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€7,500
Manama	Week 06, 2027 14 – 18 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
New York	Week 07, 2027 15 – 19 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€12,000
Kuala Lumpur	Week 08, 2027 22 – 26 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,200
Tbilisi	Week 09, 2027 1 – 5 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,000
Singapore	Week 09, 2027 1 – 5 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Istanbul	Week 10, 2027 8 – 12 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Vienna	Week 11, 2027 15 – 19 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Berlin	Week 11, 2027 15 – 19 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Bangkok	Week 11, 2027 21 – 25 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000
Cape town	Week 12, 2027 28 March – 1 April 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Dubai	Week 13, 2027 29 March – 2 April 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
San Diego	Week 14, 2027 5 – 9 April 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€14,000
Lagos	Week 14, 2027 11 – 15 April 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
Milan	Week 15, 2027 12 – 16 April 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Doha	Week 15, 2027 18 – 22 April 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,500
Cairo	Week 16, 2027 19 – 23 April 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
Abu Dhabi	Week 16, 2027 19 – 23 April 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700

Frequently asked questions

What does this course cover?

OverviewNeighborhood Planning and New Urbanism Design Course is a 1-week advanced course for urban planners, architects, real estate development teams, municipal design teams, and place-making professionals who leave with a Neighborhood Planning and Urban Design Brief. Participants compare garden suburbs, planned seaside communities, and New Urbanism thro…

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Neighborhood Planning and New Urbanism Course