Author’s Note:  With students back at colleges and universities across the U.S., this seemed like a good time to repeat our free advice for new planning students:

In his book What Your Planning Professor Forgot to Tell You, Paul Zucker, FAICP offers practical advice for new professional planners. Reading it inspired me to reflect on the experiences that have helped me to be successful in this field, both before and after receiving my degree.

I’d like to offer some “words of wisdom” to new urban and regional planning students, which are based upon my experience and the collective wisdom of the many professional planners and others I’ve come into contact with since I started down this career path:

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We’ve updated the Building Place Notebook‘s right hand sidebar with several new features:

Popular Tags

Now it’s easier than ever to find exactly what you’re looking for in the Building Place Notebook!  We’ve added a “tag cloud” of the most popular tags on our articles.  Scroll down the sidebar to click on any topic “tag” to see all of our articles covering that topic.

Spotlighting Great Planning Websites

The Zoning Guru follows numerous community planning-related blogs and news websites, big and small.  We’re big fans of…
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The Michigan Association of Planning (MAP) has several excellent educational opportunities coming up:

Transforming Transportation

November 4, 2009 (8:30 a.m. – 5:45 p.m.)
Lansing, MI – Radisson Hotel

6.5 or 8 AICP CM credits (pending approval)

MAP is bringing together state and national experts to showcase how successful communities link health, land use, and innovative transportation solutions, such as:

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