City Planning and Management
Advancing the practice of city planning and management in the large-city
setting
Welcome
to the website of the American Planning Association's City Planning and Management
Division.
We are pleased to provide this informational resource for our members and
for others who share our interests. Our division's mission, according to our
bylaws, is to "advance the practice of city planning and management in
the large-city setting." Three elements of this mission statement effectively
define our division's niche within APA: a focus upon planning agency management,
an orientation toward big cities, and an emphasis upon the practical over the
theoretical.
At the National Planning Conference each year we present a session that helps advance the practice of city planning. For 2011 we presented a panel discussion on "Measurable Outcomes in Planning" to look at the work we do in our cities and how to do a better job of measuring and explaining it to the public. For more information on that session, contact Joseph Horwedel at joseph.horwedel@sanjoseca.gov.
Our members have told us that these services are important to them and, in
fact, we rely heavily upon our members to provide the services. Therefore, please
consider volunteering to serve our division as a newsletter contributor, as
moderator of a conference session, as a peer review team member, or in a variety
of other capacities.
If you are interested in becoming more involved, please contact me at Wheeler_ma@sbcity.org.
Enjoy visiting our website and feel free to offer suggestions for improving
it.
Margo Wheeler, AICP
Chair, APA City Planning and Management Division
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