Title

Integrating Communication Skills and Planning Techniques

Author Info

Hemalata C. Dandekar, University of Michigan - Ann ArborFollow
Gerald R. Clark, City of Ann Arbor, Michigan

Recommended Citation

Postprint version. Published in Journal of Planning Education and Research, Volume 11, Issue 2, January 1, 1992, pages 141-150.

NOTE: At the time of publication, the author Hemalata C. Dandekar was not yet affiliated with Cal Poly.

The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X9201100206.

Abstract

Practitioners have long stressed the need to teach professional commumcations skills to planning students. This paper describes ten years of experience in teaching a course in which communications skills and techniques of gathering and analyzing information are taught concurrently while investigating a problem of importance in the community. The course involves an ongoing collaboration, a "marriage of convenience," between an academic and a planner, casting city/county planning staff as clients for students This has proven useful for pedagogy and has had some positive impact on the community.

Disciplines

Urban, Community and Regional Planning

Copyright

1992 Sage Publications.