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The Urban Planning Program at Virginia Community University


1. Why, according to John Accordino, VCU is the right place to start a graduate program in urban planning?

According to him VCU is the ideal place to start this career which also is a careers with new job openings every day.

2. What are the advantages for studying a master's program in this university? The principal advantage is that this University prepare the students with a practice course (They complete an internship in a private organization) that permit them to have contact with planning professionals and have more possibilities of find a good job.

3. What advantages does the city of Richmond represent to those students who decide to study at VCU? VCU is a great place to study Urban planning because Virginia has a lot of neighborhoods, traditions, exclusive architecture…Also, this city has problems like others cities (for example: impediments for environment sustainability) all this issues provide the opportunity to practice and achieve practical planning skills and learn about basic elements for construction. 4. What are the different programs offered at VCU? They also offer other programs like: Urban Revitalization, Historic Preservation and Geographic Information Systtems.