Practicing Planner, an online publication for members of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP), provides an in-depth exploration of the details of professional planning processes, facilitates national/global professional planning dialogue, espouses standards of professional planning, and provides professional planning tools and information. Practicing Planner will subsume Planners' Casebook, the quarterly publication of AICP sent to AICP members. Practicing Planner includes case studies like those published in Planners' Casebook (AICP's earlier member mailbox publication), but it will also include other types of manuscripts about planning practice. The editor invites the following types of manuscripts:

1. "Planning practice features," which are future-focused, challenging, and explore the evolving landscape of planning practice. A planning practice feature may take the following forms: exploration of planning management; exploration of ethics; point/counterpoint dialogue pieces; and a focus on evolving/controversial, in-process planning projects.
2. "Planning essentials" pieces, which point readers towards "what they need to know" about a given tool or technique (e.g., transferable development rights, fiscal impact analysis, etc.). Manuscripts of this type provide significant, evolving, and emerging standard planning resources that enhance the practice of the professional planner.
3. "Case studies," which are in-depth examinations of successes and failures found in everyday planning practice. Case studies focus on lessons learned, and they include supporting material such as images, maps, charts, graphs, bibliography, and web links.

If you have an idea for a manuscript, wish to submit an abstract, or would like to receive the editorial guidelines for Practicing Planner, please contact the editor by e-mail. Stipends are available for case studies, planning practice features, and "planning essentials" manuscripts.

The editor is also seeking volunteers who would like to serve as a peer practitioner reviewer for manuscripts sent to the editor. Reviewers may offer or be asked to submit a commentary on the manuscript reviewed for publication. If interested, please submit to the editor by e-mail your full contact information and the areas of planning experience for which you are qualified to comment.

Jerry Weitz, AICP
Editor, Practicing Planner
c/o Jerry Weitz & Associates, Inc.
1225 Rucker Road
Alpharetta, GA 30004

770-751-1203 phone
770-751-7784 fax
jweitz@bellsouth.net