Find the answers to the following questions to learn more
about city planning. Write your answers on your handout or on a separate
sheet of paper.  Printable Worksheet PDF
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What Is City Planning?
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1. Why did Megan Lewis become a planner?
2. Whom does she work with (jobs, not names)?
3. What aspect of planning does she work on?
4. What are two of the skills listed that she uses in planning?
5. What kind of art does she do in her free time?
6. What aspect of city planning does Rodney L. Cobb focus on?
7. Why does he think that the above is an important aspect of planning?
8. What kinds of skills does Rodney have?
9. What type of art does he enjoy doing?
What Do City Planners Do?
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10. List three objectives that city planning is a process
for, and give examples of each. You can either list the examples given
on the page or come up with your own.
11. Once planners have created their plan, what people and groups do they
work with to carry out the plan?
The Goal of City Planning
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12. What is the goal of city and regional planning?
13. Whom do planners work with to help define the community’s vision
for itself?
14. Besides community members’ wants, what else is the plan based
on?
15. What kinds of issues do planners analyze?
16. What are some of the different roles that planners must play?
17. What are some of the skills that planners should have? More Information on How to Become a City Planner
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