Education

Master's Planning: How to Pick an Industry That’s Growing, Not Shrinking
Just after 2008 began, I realized my profession of choice was dying.
I’d spent the previous seven years at Philadelphia Weekly, a fairly typical alternative newspaper: you know, magazine-style lefty bent, where-to-go-and-what-to-do listings, porn ads in the back. The usual.
Adaptive Reuse: Historic Courthouse To Charter School

A Manual For The Future
The Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chicago: Municipal Economy, first written in 1911 as a way to educate Chicago students about the City’s Plan of 1909, provides remarkable insight into how far America’s socio-cultural ambitions have fallen.

Summer Academics: Finding Faculty Blogs
With the coming of summer, students finish courses, faculty head off to do research, and practitioners think about vacations. However, for those interested in keeping up to date with academic issues in planning, a number of bloggists provide useful insights into the politics and hot issues in planning education. For students they are a window into the work of educators and for practicing planners they are an easy way to keep up to date with what’s happening in the schools.
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