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Overview This chapter provides a brief outline of how a reader can become a professional planner or a member of a planning commission. Chapter 24, available only on the web, provides more information on how to enter the planning profession; it is...
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Overview This chapter discusses the values that drive planners and the ethical principles that should govern planning practice.
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Overview Economic development efforts in communities in the United States typically focus on bringing “economic base” jobs to the community – jobs that produce goods or services that are sold outside the community, so that they will help to bring new...
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Overview Planning can make communities safer. Techniques range from avoiding floodways and areas likely to be hit by landslides to designing around other natural hazards and creating human-built environments that discourage criminal activity. This...
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Overview Open space helps to shape a community and helps a community to breathe. Traditional parks provide opportunities for recreation and relaxation. Linkages planned through green infrastructure programs provide critical links in habitat and natural...
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