Count me in. And while we do this, we must also recognize the need for city management reform. One reason the teaching is so siloed is because the job world is so siloed, especially in local government. We need some brave reformers to pull that apart, and have integrated, multi-disciplinary teams working together at the local level. Doing so will create real and exciting job opportunities for new multi-disciplinary graduates.
I just wanted to say: I read this back when you first wrote it, and liked it, and was going to write a response post elaborating on it/offering more ideas, but haven't gotten around to it yet. But I think I will someday! In the meantime, I want to leave this note of appreciation 🙂
Count me in too. I can do the street design/street system training. It helps that I have a PhD in engineering. We have even been tossing around the idea of a peer reviewed magazine.
Very cool. We're going to need new ways of training our engineers--engineering is very important! But it can't come at the expense of the overall picture. What's the idea with the peer reviewed magazine?
Count me in. And while we do this, we must also recognize the need for city management reform. One reason the teaching is so siloed is because the job world is so siloed, especially in local government. We need some brave reformers to pull that apart, and have integrated, multi-disciplinary teams working together at the local level. Doing so will create real and exciting job opportunities for new multi-disciplinary graduates.
it's a bit of a chicken and the egg: we need structural reform, but we also need the people to staff those new roles...
Most definitely! How do we get this change in city management circles?
I just wanted to say: I read this back when you first wrote it, and liked it, and was going to write a response post elaborating on it/offering more ideas, but haven't gotten around to it yet. But I think I will someday! In the meantime, I want to leave this note of appreciation 🙂
Thanks Greg!
Count me in too. I can do the street design/street system training. It helps that I have a PhD in engineering. We have even been tossing around the idea of a peer reviewed magazine.
Very cool. We're going to need new ways of training our engineers--engineering is very important! But it can't come at the expense of the overall picture. What's the idea with the peer reviewed magazine?