Course Overview
In this course, you will discover the important role that public policy plays in historic preservation and sustainability. You will evaluate sustainable ideas and translate them into actionable plans. You will then develop those actionable plans into legal mechanisms for encouraging sustainable policies in your own community. By the end of this course, you will be prepared to engage with public policy decision making and strategy as you progress through your career.
You are required to have completed the following courses or have equivalent experience before taking this course:
- Sustainable Historic Preservation
- Embracing the Worth of Existing Buildings
- Advocating for Sustainable Preservation
- Developing a Community Plan for Sustainable Preservation
- Economics of Sustainable Preservation
Key Course Takeaways
- Integrate a planning mindset with sustainable preservation
- Identify opportunities to insert preservation principles into planning policies
- Implement preservation as a value within planning policy
- Propose preservation practices to meet planning policy objectives