From Student to Urban Planner: Young Practitioners' Reflections on Contemporary Ethical Challenges

In this edited volume, stories of young planners from sixteen countries engage in questions that explore what might be done differently to prepare young planners for the complexities and challenges of their 'real worlds'. This book not only points out what is absent, but also offers planning educators an alternative vision.

Author: Tuna Taşan-Kok
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 12/05/2017
Pages: 326
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9781138847354

About the Author

Tuna Taşan-Kok is an urban social geographer and planner, and works as a university Professor in the Department of Human Geography, Urban Planning and International Development, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She holds a PhD in social geography and planning from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, and a MSc. in regional planning from METU, Ankara, Turkey.

Mark Oranje is a Professor in the Department of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. His key areas of teaching, research, and consulting are planning policy, planning history, regional development, intergovernmental development planning, and the interface between mining and settlement development.