Connecticut Needs To Train More Planners

13 December 2006 - 6:00am

With no graduate urban planning programs at any of the state's public or private universities, the American Planning Association's Connecticut Chapter is working with University of Connecticut to establish a master's program in planning.

"Better regional and state planning is long overdue...But we are hindered in reaching this goal by what is otherwise one of our great strengths -- our academic institutions. We have no graduate school of planning and design at a public or private institution. Does anyone doubt that we would benefit from such a program? It would provide a cadre of professionals, be a laboratory of new ideas and be a source of high-level continuing education."

Source: The Hartford Courant, December 10, 2006
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