Civik III

This dude was rude to me, for no reason! And I'm not around here enough anymore to actually have a reputation to defend. I'm too busy working...you know...as a planner.

But you enjoyed the Segun!!! Black Haus + Segun + Vodka = Civvik's Apartment Destroyed. Don't forget the Gollum voice...

I just got back the other day from my final internship which was in Berkeley. As of right now, I plan to head back to the same firm after graduation. Awesome!

Dear Progamer, 1) Who are you? Are you a UC student? If so, then graduate please, then we can talk. And are you "more of an urban designer," or an "urban designer?" I'm the latter. What are you? 2) Who am I? I don't come around here often, and I'm old school. So watch what you say, because if you want to dance, I can just have ColDay delete the thread. Trust me, I'm almost half as crazy as he is. And he stil owes me for letting Goonsta in my apartment, drunk, in the middle of January.

He CiNYC where are you working now?

Orly? UC will always be a second tier university, what with all the heavy studying, class attendance and wtfpwn stance on plagarism. [/sarcasm] On topic: Grats again UC. All we need are some more planning classes or better methods of participating/learning in the classes and we'll be number 1 soon enough. Someone's been playing too much World of Warcraft...

As a practicing urban designer with a Planning degree, I can without reservation advise anyone who is looking to go into this field to GET A DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE OR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE. I graduated from Cincinnati's DAAP program in Planning and here are just my personal observations on it: -The rank given by Planetizen seems about right, although when I went there the school regarded itself as in the top 10. -There is no substitute for a studio-based architecture or landscape architecture education. I graduated from the Planning program in 05 and we shared many studios with both Grads and Undergrads. These studios were all collaborative, problem-solving excersizes that would be more akin to public input sessions or charrettes than architectural studios. -On a scale of 1 to 10, UC's Planning program had a graphical skill expectation of about a 3. During our studio "defenses" at the end of a project it seemed like the professors were looking more for confidence and good communication, presentation and persuasion skills than the design and graphical quality of the actual assignment. That is not without merit, imho, as planners are more often facilitators, managers and "salesmen" than they are designers. -At my job I work primarily with AutoCAD and Sketchup, and some hand rendering. My firm doesn't own GIS and nobody here knows how to use it. This is also true for the large Chicago architecture firm I worked for in 2004. -Almost exclusively, a firm looking for an "Urban Designer" is looking for an architect or landscape architect, or more ideally someone with a combination of one of these degrees and a planning degree. -Looking at where my classmates ended up, I'd say that as Planning graduates, about 1 in 10 of us do design-intensive, localized or site-specific planning, thus we are "urban designers."