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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Sustainable Regional Principles, Planning and Transportation by Johns Hopkins University

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About the Course

This course will provide students with an introduction to sustainable regional principles, regional planning concepts and evaluate regional
transportation system issues. This will be achieved through dynamic video lectures, practical case studies and the evaluation of practices for
success. These will include discussions of the importance of the regional plan, how to engage community involvement, the importance of
understanding a development transect and others. Strategies for growth priorities, along with consideration of available housing and food
security will also be addressed. The concepts of providing a rural preserve and a rural reserve will be evaluated and mapping...
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Top reviews

SA

Jun 11, 2023

This is an extremely insightful course. I'm hoping to apply this knowledge one day in my third world home country and improve the cities back home.

RH

Mar 16, 2023

Thank you for this course, it lays out the key concepts and goes over an example. It helped me grow more interest and grounding in the topic.

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26 - 39 of 39 Reviews for Sustainable Regional Principles, Planning and Transportation

By Kyle S

Jun 8, 2023

Lots of useful insights, but some are very repetitive.

By Rafidhan A R

Aug 26, 2024

clear and easy to undestand

By GOGULA V

Mar 11, 2025

good

By Cauchemardevie

Aug 1, 2024

Normally, I always learn something or the other in any course I undertake however this specialization is unique in being banal and cliche. They give very positive and obvious ideas (like plant trees, install solar, encourage public transport, maintain historic buildings, reduce sprawling, etc.). Moreover, they do not delve into policy and techno-commercial aspects that impede such sustainable developments in the first place from happening. They do not explain why some stakeholders have vested interest in developing cities revolving around used based building code and not form based urban development. They do not explain how it can be overcome except for few examples that may not be universally scalable. Lastly, the course is an information dump of repetitive ideas from a professor lacking any sense of personality or humor.

By Emily M

Dec 29, 2022

There was useful information in the course and it was mostly well-organized. Some parts were very repetitive; for example, the video titled More Multimodal Considerations in Week 3 almost entirely repeats information from the previous video about biking, congestion fees, and shared vehicles. Also, the quiz questions are badly proofread and some answers are incorrect (for example, the answers to question 14 and 16 of the quiz for week 4 are incorrect).

By Cate O

Feb 21, 2025

difficult to follow as concepts are repeated, albeit learned after the quizz, and whatever you type is "correct".

By Magdalena G

May 18, 2024

It felt repetitive towards the second half. I learned great concepts overall!

By Rashid E

Nov 29, 2022

Concepts were simple and should have been delivered in a more compact way.

Presentation accompanying voiceover was not content rich.

No presentation slides to download. Major concepts could be captured in a simple (ideally downloadable) table for use during the tests.

I didn't want to progress with the specialization after taking the first course

By Ola Z

Jan 23, 2023

I expected something more dynamic and more packed with useful and interesting knowledge. I will try to finish this course but not sure if this is going to happen.

Just small improvements like more dynamic and charismatic lecturer would make this course a great experience ;)

By Daniele R

Oct 29, 2022

With my 2 stars I am not challenging the content of the course, but the form it is developed - very basic and not engaging at all. The lecturer should try to put in the lectures some more passion and involvement.

By Esraa H

Jul 13, 2023

this is a very specific course with extremely local cases and information that doesn't actually benefit people globally

By Brian S

Mar 11, 2025

Good content, not good to okay audio, decent graphics

By David I

May 2, 2023

God awful narration but interesting material