It’s All About Jobs
Could your community or local businesses benefit from passionate, smart, and well-educated workers who are willing to work long hours? A look at ways in which communities have helped connect young adults to jobs.
Youth & Planning
What do kids know about planning — and what can they contribute to the planning process in your community? Plenty! But in their own language and in their own way.
Never expect them to use the jargon that is so familiar to professional and lay planners. Zoning … setbacks … conditional use … words that we use every day are sure to turn them off.
But talk about putting a large retail store across from their favorite park, or whether to build a bicycle path around the high school or restrict parking downtown, and you will get their attention — and their opinions.
Most Recent Articles
Consider the Needs of Generation Xers in Your Public Involvement Strategies
PCJ columnist Elaine Cogan outlines ways of involving younger people in the planning process.
The Next Generation of Your Planning Commission
Is your planning commission positioned to deal with not just today’s issues, but tomorrow’s? That may well depend on whether you’ve taken steps to involve the next generation of planning commissioner.
Y is for Youth
In the planned neighborhood developments of the 1920s, elementary schools were centrally located within easy walking distance of their student population. But that changed with the explosive unplanned suburban sprawl of the 1950s and the decades that followed.
Educating Our Youth
Educating young people, and learning from them. Some ideas from Ramona Mullahey.
Fresh Eyes
By imagining a city, children are brought into the planning process. A brief report from Stanley King.
Teen Geography
Have we failed in grounding students in the fundamentals of knowing the larger world?
Young Visionaries Make Good Planners
Elaine Cogan on how to involve kids in community planning workshops.
