Routledge companion to professional awareness and diversity in planning education The Routledge Companion to Professional Awareness and Diversity in Planning Education engenders a discourse on how urban planning as a discipline is being made attractive to children and youth as they consider their career preferences. It also provides a discourse around the diversity challenges facing the institutions for training urban planning professionals. This Companion is an impressive collection of initiatives experiences and lessons in helping children youth and the general public appreciate the importance of and the diversity challenge that confronts urban planning profession and education. It comprises empirical experimental and case study research on initiatives to address the professional awareness and diversity challenges in urban planning. It has uniquely assembled voices and experiences from countries in Africa Asia Europe and North America. Contributors are educators practitioners and activists of urban planning as well as policymakers in their respective countries. This Companion is intended as a resource for urban planning schools and departments foundations non profit organizations private sector organizations public institutions teachers and alumni among others to learn and consciously drive efforts to increase planning education awareness among children youth and the general public