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Meet a local planner, Shannon Fiala
By Catarina Kidd, AICP. FIALA is Planning Manager at BCDC. She served on the APA California Northern Section Board, 2014–2016. “We are set up like a traditional planning department: there is a division that handles permits for shoreline development proposals, and my division handles long-range planning. … The most important thing is to care about your employees, be interested in their professional goals, and…
In memoriam, Joseph Kott, AICP, researched benefits of ‘green streets’
Transportation planning and management expert and scholar Joseph Kott, PhD, AICP, was well known at public agencies, private consultancies, and…
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200 miles north of Yangon. A market can be seen in the lower right corner, and above it, the curved three-story Kanbawza Bank and a bridge over the Balu Chaung River. Photo: Aliza Knox
Right: Medellín, Columbia. A city of 2.5 million — the country’s second largest. This view isof the street Carrera 45 in the El Poblado neighborhood. Photo: Holly Pearson, AICP..