Working in Urban Planning: Challenges, Lessons Learned, and Book Recs!
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- Опубліковано 28 гру 2020
- #urbanplanning #communitydevelopment #quesadiyah
Hi friends,
In this video I reflect on my first year working in urban planning and community development. I learned a lot and hopefully my story will provide some insight into a somewhat non-traditional urban planning career path! I also share some things I've been reading, watching and listening to lately. Like if you liked the video, comment, and subscribe!
You can connect with me on Instagram: / quesadiyah
Here are the links to my recommendations:
The Warmth of Other Suns:
www.amazon.com/Warmth-Other-S...
There Goes the Hood:
www.amazon.com/There-Goes-Hoo...
Black in Place:
www.amazon.com/Black-Place-Sp...
Podcast:
www.npr.org/podcasts/510357/l...
Movie:
www.amazon.com/gp/video/detai... - Фільми й анімація
Hey, just wanted to say that you’re inspiring as hell. I’m trying to figure out where to go and...this is like exactly what I want to do. The work you’re doing for people is so necessary now and I hope you get to take it easy soon.☺️
Thank you so much! 😊
I loveeee this. I’m graduating next month with a Bachelors in Urban Studies with a focus in Leadership and Public Policy and a minor in Business. It’s go great to see another black woman with a love for city planning and community outreach. I would loveee to networking and/or collaborate with you. 💗
thanks for watching! are you on linkedin?
@@Quesadiyah yes my LinkedIn name is Aya-Je’Vahni Johnston, feel free to add me
Thank you so much for your videos on urban planning and community development. I'm currently in grad school for planning and have also discovered that a "traditional" planning career is not for me so I really appreciate hearing your perspective as someone who is working directly with communities/ small business owners in a non-profit! Would love to hear more about your job search process and how you discovered your current position and how you prepared for the interview. Thanks! Sending my best wishes to Philly.
Hi Quesadiyah, thanks for making this video! I loved hearing how life was as a corridor manager in Philly during the Black Lives Matter protests. It was also insightful to hear your perspective on how riots affected small businesses, kudos to you for helping the community survive. As a hopeful urban planner, tysm for sharing info w us, and keep doing you!! 💜
Thank you for watching! 💛
A Running Coach?! That’s a blessing! Son Awesome !!!
The importance of small businesses🙏🏼 ♥the work you do truly is fulfilling 🥺😭🕯️🙌
Wow. Those are some crazy (and unfortunate) coincidences. Everything that's been going on hit you so directly. Urban planning has more reach than I thought it did. The video was great, thanks for sharing your experiences!
Thank you! 😊
Salaam! Thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos, super helpful x
Would you go over the most important/influential courses you took in your undergrad and masters career that have shaped your knowledge on Urban and City planning? Like what classes helped you form a fundamental understanding to put it simply. Thanks!
Thanks for this suggestion! I can do a video abut this
Love your videos there super informative. Keep up with the videos ! Lots of love here from the U.K 🇬🇧 . I’m a second year sociologist student and one of my modules is around urban theory and studies .
so interesting to hear more about your job
Thank you for sharing all of this!! Immensely appreciate your story, advice, and recommendations. Wishing you all the best in 2021!
thanks for watching! All the best to you as well ☺️
Thank you so much for sharing your journey this past crazy year! Burn out is real, especially when you are up against the impact of larger systemic issues, you doing great girl!! P.s. "There goes the neighbourhood" was a great podcast on gentrification. Not sure if you already covered this in a previous vid, but would love to hear more about what your job-hunting experience was like :)
Thank you! And thanks for the video suggestion, I’ll try to film it soon :)
I'm currently reading The Warmth of Other Suns. Such an important piece of U.S. history that high school history classes tend to gloss over.
Thank you so much for this video ! Sometimes I forget how involved you can be in a job and in certain situations, especially during the COVID crisis.
And the fact that you could set boundaries even during this time is incredible, I loved the tips you gave.
I loved learning about this job because I've never heard if it before, and I guess if you want to get involved with your community or with people it's a good job to do.
Thanks for watching! ☺️
Really informative AND interesting video! Shockingly rare these days :)
Thanks for watching! 🙂
Thank you so much for creating these videos that give your insight into the application process (having gone through it and grad school) and also what it's like working in urban planning. You're super engaging and just really easy to listen to :) and appreciate that you share things so candidly. I've been thinking about a career in urban planning for like 4 years now, haha and still feel so nervous bc of the financial investment (all that debt again sigh); hearing you talk about your work and its fulfillment but also its very real struggles and challenges and how so many things intersect is inspiring and definitely add even more reasons for my pull towards planning. Also love your recommendations! Warmth of Other Suns was so so so so excellent and totally super related to urban planning because the policies and migration patterns have impacts to this day, and the Last Black Man in SF was beautiful. I'll have to add the others to my list! The work you do is super important and, like others have stated here, I hope you are taking care of yourself and setting those boundaries that you remind your viewers to have!
Thank you so much for your kind comment! 💜
Invest in a lapelle mic. There's some that plug directly into your phones aux or lightning port.
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America is an excellent case study on the fight against gentrification in San Francisco. I also have How to Kill a City on my To-Read list.
Thanks for sharing!
I highly recommend these amazing movies:
A few good men
The trial of the Chicago 7
thank you!!
These challenging times are going to shape the leaders of tomorrow. Keep pushing, keep moving forward your community and city is blessed with your presence, and the work you do. I'm a professional planner and the virus and civil unrest has made my work feel hopeless at times too. But when everything is taken away from a community, the community planners are the last line of defense. Keep up the good work and I pray for your continued success. A topic I would love to hear your insight on is your experience studying and working in the US and the UK. From your personal experience, how does the planning profession change from these two places, and could you see yourself working abroad?
recommendations:
Podcasts: strongtown's upzoned podcast (can be found for free on the app podbean)
Books: the color of law (documents the exclusionary housing practices that racially segregated our cities in the 20th century), Cities in Transition (a collection of academic essays written by urban planning professionals around the world related to megacities and their growth), The myth of capitalism, gang leader for a day (a university of Chicago sociologist's account of the informal economy of the Robert Taylor Homes housing project in Chicago and personal relationship formed with gang leaders in the area), Evicted by Matthew Desmond which speaks about the issue of mass evictions with Milwaukee as a case study and lastly and not directly planning related is Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi a fiction book based around the author's own experience as a Nigerian woman who moved to America for college and her experience navigating her identity in America as a non-American black person.
Thank you for your kind words & for the recommendations! 😊
I did urban planning (HND) I also want to further in the UK but getting a job is something I haven't heard any good news about, so I need advice on the area of specification that may likely be easier getting a job when done.
thanks for this, please can you tell us the most software to use for Urban Planning.
@quesadiyah what sort of font did you use on the thumbnail for the words 'URBAN PLANNING CAREER'? I would like to use it for a PowerPoint presentation someday.
Have you thought about doing a go fund me page for the community you work in and reach out with a social campaign to perhaps put some order back in to the community as well as putting the message across that when people riot they aren’t directly attacking the government but what they are doing is effecting the space in which they live . In order for a community to thrive, I believe that we have to get the message across that we the people have a duty to keep the community . Just like citizens arrest for example etc .
which softwares do you use for mapping?
layouts?
textures?
Do you ever need to use GIS (Geographic Information System) in Urban planning?
i don't at my job, but a lot of planning jobs do require some level of GIS use
@@Quesadiyah Thank you for the reply! Very informative video!
Pls I will like to really connect with you i love your videos. Am an undergraduate of urban planning.
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I think you might want to move the microphone closer to your mouth. Good video overall.
Hey 👋, I’m currently registered for a masters of Town and Regional planning in South Africa . I have a background in community development and demography ,it’s very interesting to see your job description, I generally don’t see myself working within traditional planning 🫂 thank you for this 💕