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The Planning Commissioner Training series from Planetizen Courses offers ten courses on the essentials of citizen planning—everything from planning ethics, comprehensive plans, site plans, approval processes, planning law, zoning, and the essential role of the public in planning.

Dec 19, 2024 · The challenges facing cities in 2024 are often not new. But they are, in many cases, more urgent. Traffic fatalities continue to increase in many cities despite pledges by civic leaders to support Vision Zero goals, while transportation agencies keep expanding highways and prioritizing traffic flow over safety and sustainability. Climate change continues to impact …

A comprehensive plan is an essential feature of long-term planning for cities and counties all over the United States, as both the process and the documentation for creating a broad, long-term vision for future land uses and the built environment of communities.. A comprehensive plan contains a map of future land uses for an entire planning jurisdiction (like a city or a county), …

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Jeff Levine, AICP, is an urban planner with over 25 years’ of professional experience. Currently, Levine is the owner and principal of Levine Planning Strategies, a consulting firm that specializes in bridging the gap between the development community and city planners, while also teaching housing and economic development planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jun 22, 2023 · Planetizen publishes the top 25 master’s programs in planning in the Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs (Guide), currently in its 7th Edition.. Topping the Top 25 for the first time is the Master of Urban and Regional Planning program at the University of California, Los Angeles, followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rutgers, the State …

The term urban planning is frequently used as a shorthand to describe the broader professional field of planning, which includes many non-urban disciplines. While planning is a specific professional practice and academic study—you can get a graduate degree in planning, get hired to a job as a planner, and get professionally certified as a planner—there is no authoritative …

Aug 19, 2021 · Natalie Bicknell shares news of a new report by moveBuddha, an online company that shares information and resources for moving, that ranks U.S. cities by their achievement of the "15-minute city" ideal that has gained traction in urbanism circles in recent years. "[Mi]d-size American cities of 250,000 to 750,000 residents dominated the rankings of the top 25 future 15 …