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Welcome to
KidsTown, Alabama!
This site just for kids is developed by Alabama's planners! Since this is a new feature to ALAAPA Online, it is still under construction. Please submit your suggestions for items to
include to the
webmaster.
What
is a Planner?
A planner is someone
who helps your community or neighborhood decide how it wants to look and
how it should grow. The planner then designs "tools" to help
your neighborhood look the way you want. These "tools" might
include standards for how new buildings should look and where new schools
and new parks should go. A planner's work is never done since a city or
neighborhood is constantly changing.
What does a
Planner do?
Planners should have a general knowledge of all
the many sides of planning, urban history and design, landscape
architecture, architecture, civil engineering, geography, economics,
public policy, and social science (to name a few). When I work with a team
of planners who are generalists with a common goal of community, and each
has special skills in one or more of those many facets, the result is
always great city planning.
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