Description
The Routledge Companion to Professional Awareness and Diversity in Planning Education engenders a discourse on how urban planning as a discipline is being made attractive to children and youth as they consider their career preferences. It also provides a discourse around the diversity challenges facing the institutions for training urban planning professionals.
This Companion is an impressive collection of initiatives, experiences, and lessons in helping children, youth, and the general public appreciate the importance of, and the diversity challenge confronting, the urban planning profession and education. It comprises empirical, experimental, and case study research on initiatives to address the professional awareness and diversity challenges in urban planning. It has uniquely assembled voices and experiences from countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. Contributors are educators, practitioners, and activists of urban planning as well as policymakers in their respective countries.
This Companion is intended as a resource for urban planning schools and departments, foundations, non-profit organizations, private sector organizations, public institutions, teachers, and alumni, among others to learn and consciously drive efforts to increase planning education awareness among children, youth, and the general public.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Urban Planning Profession and Diversity Challenge
Danilo Palazzo, Leah Hollstein, and Stephen Kofi Diko
I. Diversity in Planning
- Racial Diversity and Accredited Planning Programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Contributions, Challenges, and Prospects
Jeffrey S. Lowe and Siddhartha Sen - The People that Represent the Region and The Year of Change
Ivis Garcia, April Jackson, Andrew J. Greenlee, and Benjamin Chrisinger - More Than an Invitation: Setting the Rhythm of Planning Programs Through DEI Statements and Plans
Sean Angst, Lindsay Oluyede, Jocelyn Poe, and Dylan Stevenson - More Than a Job: Building Opportunities for Undergraduate Professional Development in a Minority Serving Institution
Laura M. Keyes, Lauren Ames Fischer, Abraham David Benavides - Deconstructing Diversity in Urban Planning Education in Italy: Implications for the Future of a "Practical Knowledge"
Bertrando Bonfantini and Carolina Pacchi - Diversifying Urban Planning and Architecture Programs Through International Education Experience: Lessons from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
Parsa Pahlavan and Hossein Maroufi - A Path to Racial Equity: Representation and Youth Planning Education
Giovania Tiarachristie and Daphne Lundi - Building Planning Education at a Hispanic-Serving R1 Institution: Challenges in Diversity and Recruitment
Lauren Ames Fischer, Laura Keyes, and Abraham David Benavides
II. Planning Awareness Among Children and Youth
9. Becoming Activated: Professional Awareness Through the Activate Community Empowerment Outreach Program
Leah Hollstein, Stephen Kofi Diko, and Danilo Palazzo
10. Why Plan? A Two-Decade Exploration Into How and Why to Engage Young People in City Planning and Diversify the Planning Pipeline.
Deborah McKoy and David H. Garcia
11. Engaging Elementary School Pupils in Community Awareness and Planning: Insights from the Kaizuka Machizukuri Club, Osaka.
Seth Asare Okyere, Lisa Ueno, Mowa Ebashi, Motoki Shimoda, Hiroshi Tsuji, and Michihiro Kita
12. Learning Environmental Planning With Geodesign: A Case Study in Cache Valley, Utah
Bartlett Warren-Kretzschmar and Carlos V. Licon
13. Planning With Children: Implications for the Planning Profession and Active Citizens
K. Meghan Wieters
14. Promoting Urban Planning Awareness for Children: An Overview of Multifaceted International Case Studies and Community Outreach Initiatives.
Aya Elkhouly and Doha Eissa
15. For Mutual Benefit? Introducing Urban Planning to High School Geography Students in NSW, Australia
Isabel Virgona and Simon Pinnegar
16. Can Children窶冱 Participation Inspire a New Generation of Planners?
Robyn G. Mansfield
17. Town and Gown Partnerships for Youth Engagement and Diversity in the Planning Profession
Evangeline Linkous, Melissa Zornitta, and Melissa Dickens
III. Planning Education Awareness
18. Shaping Awareness About Planning by Helping Planners to Become More Mindful and Critical About Their Identity, Role, and Context
Savis Gohari
19. Undergraduate Urban Planning Students窶� Awareness of and Motivations for Planning Education and Profession
Dohyung Kim
20. Increasing Planning Education Awareness and Addressing Enrollment Challenge in Urban Planning Schools: The Iowa State University Experience
Carlton Basmajian and Francis Owusu
21. Factors Influencing Considerations for Urban Planning as a Field of Study and/or Career Choice among Environmental Science Students
Kwame N. Owusu-Daaku and Mackenzie Devine
22. Alabama City Year Program
Binita Mahato, Sweta Byahut, and Jay Mittal
23. Career Choices in the Century of Urbanization: A Comparative Study of Student Enrollments in Nigerian Universities from Urban Planning Perspective
David S. Osiyi and Victor U. Onyebueke
24. Enhancing Planning-Education Awareness in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Namibia
Eric Yankson
25. Raising Urban Planning Awareness in India
Bhargav Adhvaryu and Bhavesh Joshi
Conclusion: A Clarion Call to Act Intentionally
Stephen Kofi Diko, Danilo Palazzo, and Leah Hollstein
