Law Books Strike Again!

This time: Why getting a planning degree is like poor man's civil engineering degree*.

Professional jealousy. ... Engineers often stereotype planners as starry-eyes dreamers who lack both technical skills and an adequate awareness of development costs. Planners often stereotype engineers as persons lacking both creativity and ecological sensitivity. Engineers claim to have the last laugh because they, not planners, have had (and in most places still have) the greatest influence over the shape of American cities and towns.
-Ellickson and Been (2005), p. 421

*it's also a poor man's MBA. I'm sure the book will address this at some point. Meanwhile, I still want to be an artist.