Mike Dastic Urban and regional planners
After completing a bachelor's degree, students aspiring to a career as urban planners can take up postgraduate studies in order to obtain a master's degree in urban planning.
Michael Dastic During various job searches I became acquainted with the area of urban planning. Working as a planner at the DCP has returned my passion for civic engagement and given me a more holistic understanding of the planning process of New York City, including learning the many different actors involved in land use decisions.
I am currently a planner in the Department of Transport, where my work requires short- and long-term planning studies and data analysis to support the Urban Planning Department (DCP), Neighbourhood Studies and Traffic Studies.
Urban and regional planners keep their communities vibrant and healthy by keeping pace with population growth, reviving, replacing and reallocating aging infrastructure, adding schools and making communities attractive to businesses.
Mike Dastic - We are seeing how communities are involved in decision-making in the areas of transport and land use planning.
When we plan and develop an area, we have to think about what kind of people will live there. Whether it is public infrastructure or planning and engineering works, they are used by the people who do the planning or engineering work, and these are the people we think are the people we should be doing the work with.
Stephane Pierre is a planner in the Transportation Department of the New York City Department of Planning. He holds a degree in environmental science and economics from the University of Pittsburgh and is currently studying urban planning at Hunter College.
Michael Dastic In 1961, Jane Jacobss Death and Life in Great American Cities was published, and in 1974 Robert A. Caro appeared Power Brokers: An Indictment of American Urban Planners. When lawmakers make life easier for developers, planners become helpless accomplices to urban inequality.
