Overview

The Routledge Companion to Professional Awareness and Diversity in Planning Education engenders a discourse on how urban planning as a discipline is being made attractive to children and youth as they consider their career preferences. It also provides a discourse around the diversity challenges facing the institutions for training urban planning professionals. This Companion is an impressive collection of initiatives, experiences, and lessons in helping children, youth, and the general public appreciate the importance of, and the diversity challenge confronting, the urban planning profession and education. It comprises empirical, experimental, and case study research on initiatives to address the professional awareness and diversity challenges in urban planning. It has uniquely assembled voices and experiences from countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. Contributors are educators, practitioners, and activists of urban planning as well as policymakers in their respective countries. This Companion is intended as a resource for urban planning schools and departments, foundations, non-profit organizations, private sector organizations, public institutions, teachers, and alumni, among others to learn and consciously drive efforts to increase planning education awareness among children, youth, and the general public. Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Author:   Stephen Kofi Diko ,  Leah Marie Hollstein ,  Danilo Palazzo (University of Cincinnati, US)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.793kg
ISBN:  

9781032183121

ISBN 10:   1032183128
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   21 April 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Adult education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"""Urban planning as a discipline does sometimes suffer from a public lack of understanding of its parameters and scope, unlike many other built environment disciplines. Furthermore, what the profession is in dire need of, is a diverse cadre of committed professionals that are able to contribute to more inclusive spaces in a variety of settings. This collection addresses both issues by sharing a range of planning pedagogic experiences from marginal spaces within parts of the global North and underexplored parts of the globe. Planning as a career choice is explored among school learners and undergraduate students, also. The contributing chapters are informative, incisive and a welcome addition to the growing literature on planning education."" Prof. Nancy Odendaal, Director of the School of Architecture Planning and Geomatics, University of Cape Town, South Africa ""It is hard to find an excellent book that simultaneously addresses many challenges facing planning education. This Companion does that, addressing diversity among scholars, professionals, and students; arguing for planning education to reach younger audiences; and encouraging self-reflection among planners and students. The Companion also argues for undergraduate and international planning education. The contributors include scholars at the forefront of thinking about these issues."" Prof. Rayman Mohamed, Chair and Graduate Director, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Wayne State University, USA ""Planning practitioners and students often admit that they stumbled into the discipline by chance or happy accident. This collection aims to change that by providing strategies to help raise awareness of planning as a career choice, with a thoughtful emphasis on connecting to children and youth. The companion draws from an impressively broad range of experiences, with examples from four continents, that emphasize the importance of increasing diversity in our discipline."" Dr. Charles A. Santo, Chair and Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, The University of Memphis, USA ""This book shows that there are no easy answers to marketing planning as a profession: making it possible and desirable for people with a wide variety of backgrounds to get an education in planning; engaging all types of people, including children and youth, in planning processes; and making planning education responsive to local contexts. All these take effort, relationship-building, self-evaluation, institutional change, and, of course, resources. There are quite a few success stories in this book, however, that can serve as roadmaps for educators looking to increase the reach and impact of their programs and the quality of education for their students."" Carolyn G. Loh, Wayne State University, USA, for the Journal of Urban Affairs"

Urban planning as a discipline does sometimes suffer from a public lack of understanding of its parameters and scope, unlike many other built environment disciplines. Furthermore, what the profession is in dire need of, is a diverse cadre of committed professionals that are able to contribute to more inclusive spaces in a variety of settings. This collection addresses both issues by sharing a range of planning pedagogic experiences from marginal spaces within parts of the global North and underexplored parts of the globe. Planning as a career choice is explored among school learners and undergraduate students, also. The contributing chapters are informative, incisive and a welcome addition to the growing literature on planning education. Prof. Nancy Odendaal, Director of the School of Architecture Planning and Geomatics, University of Cape Town, South Africa It is hard to find an excellent book that simultaneously addresses many challenges facing planning education. This Companion does that, addressing diversity among scholars, professionals, and students; arguing for planning education to reach younger audiences; and encouraging self-reflection among planners and students. The Companion also argues for undergraduate and international planning education. The contributors include scholars at the forefront of thinking about these issues. Prof. Rayman Mohamed, Chair and Graduate Director, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Wayne State University, USA Planning practitioners and students often admit that they stumbled into the discipline by chance or happy accident. This collection aims to change that by providing strategies to help raise awareness of planning as a career choice, with a thoughtful emphasis on connecting to children and youth. The companion draws from an impressively broad range of experiences, with examples from four continents, that emphasize the importance of increasing diversity in our discipline. Dr. Charles A. Santo, Chair and Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, The University of Memphis, USA

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"Stephen Kofi Diko is Assistant Professor at the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Memphis, Tennessee (USA). He holds a PhD in Regional Development Planning from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio (USA). His research interests and experiences encompass urban green spaces, climate change, flooding, informality, community economic development, plan quality assessments, and urban planning awareness. He explores these interests through the lens of sustainable urban development and policy both at the local and global levels. Leah Marie Hollstein is Assistant Professor in the School of Planning at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning. She holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Urban Planning from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests are in the areas of environmental planning, green infrastructure, land use planning, planning practice and education, and planning research methods. Danilo Palazzo is Professor and Director of the School of Planning at the University of Cincinnati, USA. Prior to moving to Cincinnati, Palazzo was on the faculty at the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy. Palazzo has authored, with Frederick Steiner, Urban Ecological Design: A Process for Regenerative Places (2011), as well as contributing a chapter on ""Pedagogical Tradition"" to the Companion to Urban Design (2011). He is the author, with Vikas Mehta, of Companion to Public Space (2020)."

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