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Recognizing Planning As A Leadership Position

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Marisa Waxman
2 November 2005 - 11:00am

Philadelphia's Mayor proposes to include the director of the city's planning commission in his cabinent.

In a tribute to the late urban planner Edmund N. Bacon, Philadelphia Mayor Street want to amend the City Charter to "add the position of executive director of the City Planning Commission to the mayor's cabinet... Street has informally expanded his cabinet to a total of 12 positions, including Maxine Griffith, who resigned as his chief planner earlier this year."

Full Story: Street proposes to include Bacon's ex-post in cabinet
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 2, 2005
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I argue that the vocabulary of planning and the concepts necessary to participate in local government and planning issues need to be taught to students in K-12.
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