Residential neighborhoods are often within walking distance of an elementary school or park which serves as a gathering place. Neighborhoods can also be identified by their boundaries or borders, such as major streets. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. The purpose of planning is to create a safe, attractive, healthy, and economically strong community.
Planners work to make cities a better place to live and work.
It expresses the efforts of citizens working together to define a community's values. City planning is all around us. Cities have been planned for as long as they have been built. Where you live, learn, work, and play were all made by city planning choices. The real question we should be asking ourselves is not whether planning is being done, but rather whether we are a part of the planning process.