urban planning

[sebbbo77]

Despite the imagery - urban planning is a horrible career. I basically wasted 10 years of my life doing it. Its just a stress pot job full of small nuiances and punitive people at every corner. The imagination is left to designers, architects and even civil engineers. Planners are all about process. Quite alarming when you do a course in planning full of subjective ideas and theories - the minute you practice it you think "what the hell have I got myself into??" ... So glad I am out !!

[run4restrun]

@sebbbo77 that ain't good...i'm in my second year of planning now....cheers for the heads up lol

[saltandpeps]

@sebbbo77 I feel the same way. Felt like i was cheated the second i got into the office. What are you up too now as far as career goes?

[road2stamfordbridge]

@sebbbo77 No its not, you are soo wrong

[sebbbo77]

@road2stamfordbridge ...... yeah well try telling that to the thousands of town planners who have quit their jobs because of serious inconsistencies in what they were trained to do and what actually took practice.

[akmalhakimvlog]

@sebbbo77 you really think so?

[alexerify1]

@sebbbo77

I was looking into planning as a career. Why is it so bad? What is it like actually practicing?

[akmalhakimvlog]

@alexerify1 That's sebbo's opinion. If you have the heart, and willing to take planning as your career. Just go for it ! And you will go far :)

[idunno4got]

@sebbbo77 really, I looking at this coz, instead of designing a buildihng you get to design a whole city, that is what is attracting me to the post graduate programme.

[bentleykf]

@sebbbo77 I'd look at Libeskind's plan for ground zero and how faithful the developers and architects are to this to get a good idea of the role of urban planning. IMO urban planning is about social and economical system design, ie. how communities work rather than how buildings and cities look. 'Unfortunately' its far cheaper to build in or near existing infrastructure (transport, businesses, education, etc.) than to build in new locations like shown above.

[bentleykf]

@sebbbo77 The cost to create the infrastructure required for this video example would be astronomical, but largely unreported as its money spent by private business owners and not money spent by the developers or government. IMO the role of urban planner within existing infrastructure is to marry the social role of new development with the social requirements of the existing infrastructure and vice versa.

[nttb6403]

well, things come with cost, nothing is perfect so live with it or move to other place. Saigon is a great place. It has the resources and the ideal geographic location to become a world class city. Let's look at Chicago, San Francisco, Moscow, New York, London and other places. They all went through harsh time and their people have to move along, kept building their city so they are what they are today. Go Saigon, it's time for you to become the pearl of Eastern Sea once again. 5/5*

[Dj7baylum]

What a beautifull Oasis.See this is why americans are losing,because we are not building anything great anymore.Instead if you come to my town,Waynesboro va,Conservatives gripe about progress and won't let a new $250,000,000.00 plan rebuild a whole quarter of Downtown.This upsets me greatly what A SHAME!

[Phoenixkidd]

What you have to understand DJ is that 3rd world countries leaders have much more power than ours do, trust this area is probably large slums that the government like many hundreds do, are able to give "incentive" and force these people out for their grandoise projects. Urban planning is very difficult in 1st world countries because property ownership is very high. a dilemma but yet one that maintains our rights to freedom from poverty and lawlessness.

[Cdss1986]

I Beileve that that will change with time,and it will be more difficult in the furture to be a property owner because of new controls for sprawl and new environmental pressures.Especially within city limits which need to progress and change at a faster rate than the dying countryside around the city.We need a new Urbanist revolution.