VON HAUSEN TRAINING
The VON HAUSEN TRAINING ACADEMY (VHTA) offers customized training to municipalities, development corporations, communities, and companies involved in urban design, real estate development and planning. VHTA uniquely integrates urban design and real estate development to create GREATER COMMUNITIES. Michael von Hausen, lead instructor of VHTA, brings more than 20 years of leading the award-winning Urban Design Certificate Program at Simon Fraser University and facilitating the sought after School of Development at the Urban Development Institute, Vancouver.
The courses offered by the VON HAUSEN TRAINIING ACADEMY include the following 11 courses and more:
UD 1: Urban Design: Theory and Practice RE 1: Real Estate Development Process
UD 2: 100 Principles of Urban Design RE 2: Market Analysis and Marketing
UD 3: Site Design and Evaluation RE 3: Numbers and Real Estate Development
UD 4: Climate Resilient Design RE 4: Real Estate Development Approvals
E1: Next Generation Public Realm Planning and Design
E2: Downtown Vitalization
E3: Effective Visual Communications
LIBRARY AND RESOURCES
As part of the training resources, the VON HAUSEN TRAINING ACADEMY offers customized books and publications including:
1. Real Estate Development Primer: An Introduction to the Development Process (2025)
2. Public Realm: The New Makers Handbook (2022)
3. New Pathways to Approvals: Developing Better Communities Together (2021)
4. Small Is Big: Making the Next Great Small to Mid-Size Downtowns (2019)
5. Dynamic Urban Design: A Handbook for Creating Sustainable Communities Worldwide (2013)
6. Urban Design and Planning Graphics Resource Book (2012)
7. Eco-Plan: Community Ecological Planning and Sustainable Design (2011)
8. 100 Timeless Urban Design Principles: A Handbook to Inspire Great Ideas (2008)
9. Real Estate Economics in Urban Design: The Role of Civic Economics in Place Making (2004).
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