This article describes the level of physical planning educational activ ity at graduate schools of city and regional planning. The major find ings are (1) in many schools, special izations in physical planning subjects are unavailable; (2) there are a large number of schools at which faculty are not interested in many of the subjects; and (3) between 36 percent and 91 percent of the schools do not offer courses in various physical planning subjects.
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