Bill, I really enjoy your in depth use of Seinfeld to explain urban planning to people who do understand what “planners” really do. You came to city planning from the exact opposite perspective as myself. Typically, city planners do grow up in the suburbs and their first knowledge of the planning profession is based off that perspective after moving to a Downtown environment I came at as a city girl in a place with “no zoning” stance and official rules preventing the city from taking a stance on zoning, and moved out to the inner ‘burbs after i became a successful planner.
I hope you are doing well at Washburn. Annie Driver
Thanks Annie! Very interesting. I think that's the point I realized. We can all look at the same thing and see something different. But the greatest things stay pretty universal over time no matter the vantage point. Laughing is such a good metric too. Planners really need it!
Bill, I really enjoy your in depth use of Seinfeld to explain urban planning to people who do understand what “planners” really do. You came to city planning from the exact opposite perspective as myself. Typically, city planners do grow up in the suburbs and their first knowledge of the planning profession is based off that perspective after moving to a Downtown environment I came at as a city girl in a place with “no zoning” stance and official rules preventing the city from taking a stance on zoning, and moved out to the inner ‘burbs after i became a successful planner.
I hope you are doing well at Washburn. Annie Driver
Thanks Annie! Very interesting. I think that's the point I realized. We can all look at the same thing and see something different. But the greatest things stay pretty universal over time no matter the vantage point. Laughing is such a good metric too. Planners really need it!