Urban planner

Harland Bartholomew is one of the original municipal planners that influenced the city planning profession from 1914 to present day. Bartholomew’s influence and notability in city planning has three distinct areas (Lovelace, 1993). These three areas include the education of planning professionals, civil service at both the city and national level, and his private practice and advancement of a systematic comprehensive plan (Lovelace, 1993). These three areas tell a story of an individual that had a profound impact on the city planning profession beginning from the start of his planning career in 1912 and still continues today (Lovelace, 1993). Harland Bartholomew was born in 1889 near Boston, Massachusetts and moved to Brooklyn, New York (Lovelace,…

Cities was written as a critique to the failing 1950s urban planning policies that led to the further decline of many already struggling neighborhoods, it was her most popular book and it ignited a spark of controversy among urban planning professionals in the field . Jacobs’ called this popular piece “the relation of the function to design in large cities.” One thing that Jacob criticized in her book was how the government supported the many urban planners who wanted to inject failing cities…

Harland Bartholomew name might be not as widely known as Ebenezer Howard, Jane Jacobs, or Robert Moses, but it can be argued that he is just as important to how city planners are impacted today through his theories and methods. Bartholomew was a city planner that lived from 1889 to 1989 (Lovelace, 1993). He was one of the original municipal planners and has influenced city planning profession from 1914 to present day. Bartholomew’s influence and notability in city planning has three distinct…

In 1983, financial planning was defined as a process utilized by financial planners to objectively assess a client’s goals, developing a plan to meet those goals, followed by the implementation of the plan and thenceforth a periodic review of the plan to ensure the client was making progress towards their goals (Chene, Gold, & Gramlich, 2010). Boone (2000) provides a similar definition by suggesting that financial planning is the advice and service designed to help meet a client’s life goals…

As a planner while making a comprehensive plan for it is of utmost importance that plan is to be prepared according to the requirements and needs of the area. The primary concern is to provide and develop such a plan which people of that area will acknowledge and accept it. Thus over the time authorities have been trying to put emphasis on public participation as a major component for planning process. This participation comes in various forms, out of which the surveys and community meetings…

As a mature aged student studying via distance education, it can sometimes be difficult to self-manage and find a healthy balance between life, work and study. Additionally, information overload can prove overwhelming, hindering proper memory retention, after having been out of the learning environment for numerous years. Discovering what strategies work best is an individual process of trial, error and re-evaluation. The time management and learning strategies I will explore to counteract these…

After working for 30 years in the accounting and purchasing departments in a public school system in Louisiana, I started a new career as a financial planner. Upon completing all of my coursework with the College of Financial Planning, I realized that much of what I learned could have helped greatly if I had this knowledge while working in the school system. Although I did fairly well financially in my career, I could have done much better if I had a book like this when I first started my…

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QUESTION 1 Regulatory Framework of the Financial Planning Industry 1) “If a financial adviser is to give appropriate advice, they require a good knowledge of Corporate Law.” Discuss. Answer: There are a couple of aspects that require a financial planner to know about corporate law in detail. Firstly, as financial planners are running a business they have a responsibility to follow and comply with the rules and regulation under Corporations act to ensure that the firms are fulfilling its duties…

Jennifer Light’s From Warfare to Welfare: Defense Intellectuals and Urban Problems in Cold War America traces the transfer of military techniques, technologies, and experts to city management and organization during the early Cold War. Defense intellectuals approached urban problems using techniques developed during the Second World War; systems analysis, aerial surveillance, and computer simulation Coincidentally enough, From Warfare to Welfare itself originated in the defense establishment.…