Growing Demand For Urban Planners

26 August 2005 - 8:00am

Growing cities scramble to hire city planners as many professionals move to the private sector.

"The planner pinch hurts even more in swelling cities as planners flee to private business, searching for less red tape and chunkier paychecks...Cities are constantly adding positions to keep pace with commercial and housing developments, but the pool of applicants continues to drain."

Source: The Arizona Republic, August 24, 2005
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For the past half century we have been building communities for the wrong reasons. We built them to sell cars. This created all sorts of problems.