Nixing Law School in Favor of a M.U.P?
City planning sounds like a good fit for you and is a great track. Your stated interests — design, rules, working with the public, sustainable communities, transportation planning, and bikes/pedestrian friendliness — make me think you’d really like city planning. You can hold public charettes, figure out how to use the community’s input to make bike/ped-friendly places, and then figure out how to codify these design ideas through rules, all the while dealing with the politics between the city planning department, the department of public works, the mayor and city council, the planning commission, and so forth. The only interest you had that I didn’t think was a great fit was technology. I don’t deal much with that. But if you were doing, oh, a green building program or something, you would. The one reality check I’d give you is that honestly, the whole community input thing will lose its idealistic allure pretty quickly if you’re on the city side. 🙂 But you could also do community o
