Certification, Licensing, and Registration of Planners

Abstract

The following commentary is based on a paper delivered by Stuart Meck, AICP, of APA's Research Department at the International Conference on the Certification of Planners, Shanghai, China, June 9-11, 1998. The conference was cosponsored by the City Planning Department of the Ministry of Construction, People's Republic of China, Tongji University in Shanghai, and the Shanghai Urban Planning Administration Bureau. The conference, which drew planners and academics from 30 provinces in China, and planners from Great Britain, Hong Kong, and the U.S., was intended to provide Chinese planners with perspectives on implementing a national certification system, agoal for 1999 for the national Ministry of Construction and Ministry of Personnel. See “AICP in China,” 64 Planning No. 8 (August 1998) at 32.