Originally Posted by
Allister
I understand town planning is taught in universities, but from the evidence I'd say the people taking the courses are the ones that weren't smart enough to get an arts degree.
As someone with both a Bachelors and a Masters in that, i'm going to take offense to this. It's actually a structural problem; when graduates arrive in the field, they are bound by archaic regulations that they have only minimal power to change which are vigorously enforced by NIMBY homeowners who will scream bloody murder at the slightest hint that a business or apartment development might be allowed in their pristine neighborhood. They learn the way it needs to be, then get dropped in an office who's task it is mainly to uphold rules that none of them agree with, which they are sometimes able to make relatively small adjustments in.