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Plans are worthless, but planning is everything
–President Dwight Eisenhower
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I advise students taking the Urban Planning Concentration (which can be undertaken as part of majoring in Geography).
I highly recommend that aspiring Planners visit the US Department of Labor’s description of the labor market for Planners. I also recommend that prospective and active undergraduate students familiarize themselves with the “Big Six” college experiences that graduates indicate most helped them prepare for their career.
Please get in touch with me (levines@newpaltz.edu) if you’d like to make an appointment to discuss Urban Planning at SUNY New Paltz — whether individual courses, the “Concentration” degree program, internship opportunities, or career pathways.
Above: Visit with my Urban Planning students to the Second Avenue Subway and Mario Cuomo Bridge (which replaced the Tappan Zee Bridge)
Above: Field Visit with my Urban Planning students to the New NY Bridge construction site in Tarrytown, NY
Above: Field Visit with my Urban Planning students to the Mohawk Harbor brownfield redevelopment site in Schenectady, NY
I regularly teach the following courses (click here for current class schedules). If you are considering taking one of these courses, you may find feedback from students in recent years helpful (links embedded below):
- Introduction to Urban and Regional Planning (GEO214; typically in the Fall semester) Student feedback: here, here, here, here, and here
- Issues in Planning (GEO314; typically in the Spring semester) Student feedback: here, here, here, and here
- Quantitative Analysis in Urban Planning (GEO315; typically in the Fall semester) Student feedback: here
- Economic Geography (GEO213; typically in both Fall and Spring) Student feedback: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here
- Physical Geography (GEO202; typically in both Fall and Spring) Student feedback: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here)