04 January 2008

Best Careers 2008: Landscape Architecture, Urban Planner

US News and World Report has published their Best Careers 2008 issue and has both Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning in their Top 31.

The LA feature includes a "Day in the Life" but I am curious who helped them write it. THeir explanation of the ownside is interesting: "To be content in this career, it helps if you're an avid environmentalist and can tolerate the often labyrinthine approvals process." They also picked a "Smart Specialty":
Ecosystem Restoration. Governments and nonprofit groups are restoring increasing amounts of land to their primitive states.
The planning description helps clarify why GIS is so important these days, "planners gorge themselves on data".

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