Education & Careers
Latinos and Planning: The Road Ahead
With the Latino population growing tremendously, it's time to begin addressing the shortcomings in the practice of planning regarding this key demographic.
Families Are Uprooting In Search Of The Perfect School
Changes in technology -- and many parents' obsessive search for the perfect school -- are enabling families to move further afield to access quality education.
University Of Pittsburgh Considers Preservation Degree Program
The university is convening a symposium with experts from around the country to chart a path for the study of historic buildings.
Planning Students Bring Fresh Eyes To Street Redesign
Planning students at the University of Oregon have partnered with consultants to examine and offer advice on plans to redevelop a Eugene street corridor as a mixed use development. The students have also held public hearings to gather resident input.
Boomtown Looks To Hire Lots Of New Planners
The Municipality of Wood Buffalo is looking to fill 49 new positions in its planning and development department to cope with the area's incredible growth -- a result of the tar sands boom in northern Alberta.
Rural College Towns Seek To Create Urban Life
Rural colleges are urbanizing their campuses to stay competitive with their peers and keep up with evolving demographic preferences.
You're Never Too Young To Learn About Planning
In hopes of inspiring future civic leaders, an innovative volunteer program teaches grade school children about how a city works.
Who Wants To Be A Redevelopment Czar?
The lengthy list of candidates for the top job at the Boston Redevelopment Agency includes architect and Harvard professor Alex Krieger.
America's Greatest Builder?
Critic Paul Goldberger suggests that New York planner Robert Moses may deserve another look at the "sheer scale of his achievements." Goldberger reviews the forthcoming book, "Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York".
Can Planners Learn Something From Computer Programmers?
Unconferences, a type of informational gathering among open source software developers, could provide a model for the planning community.
Friday Funny: Professor Plumbago's Rejection Letter
Chris Plumbago, associate professor of urban planning at the University of Columbus, offers a model of a 'tragically amusing' rejection letter from an academic journal.
How Schools Teach Sprawl
The planning and placement of schools is making students 'auto-dependent', according to an urban planning academic in Canada. Others also bemoan the architectural design of schools and the potentially harmful building materials used to build them.
Planner Moonlighting: Where To Draw The Line
Commissioners in Ada County, Idaho declare planner's private contract with adjacent county violated county ethics statute.
Community Colleges Working To Improve Role As Workforce Pipeline
Though they serve over half of all U.S. college undergrads, two-year institutions have typically focused more on getting students to enroll rather than helping them reach their career goals. But that attitude is changing.
Students 'Engineer' Cities Around A Toxic Future
The national association of engineers sponsors a "Future City Competition' in which junior high school students design a city, based on the premise that toxic chemicals have rendered the planet uninhabitable.
Planning Schools For A Changing Future
The design of schools should account for advances in technology and consider how those changes will affect the way students learn, according to learning advocates who discuss the future of school design in this article from the BBC.
Maui's Planning Director Profiled
The Planning Director for Maui, Hawaii, Jeff Hunt, prepares to take on a new general plan process. He was formerly the director of community development in the Rocky Mountain resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado.
Is Harvard's Design School Sexist?
Controversy over the lack of female faculty at Harvard's Graduate School of Design has erupted after a adjunct professor of landscape architecture submitted her resignation in protest of the school's gender imbalance.
A Very Early Start For A Career In Planning
A innovative program for gifted children in Australia is giving students a chance to learn the basics of town planning.
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
This six-course series explores essential urban design concepts using open source software and equips planners with the tools they need to participate fully in the urban design process.
Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
Economic & Planning Systems, Inc.
UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
Mpact (formerly Rail~Volution)
Chaddick Institute at DePaul University
City of Piedmont, CA
Great Falls Development Authority, Inc.
HUDs Office of Policy Development and Research
