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It has many challanges such as poverty, sprawl and political fragmentation and treads for enviromnmental susteinability. This setting and issues provides the oportunity for learning practical planning skills hands on field based instroction (learning by doing).  2. What are the advantages for studying a master's program in this university?
 * 1. Why, according to John Accordino, VCU is the right place to start a graduate program in urban planning?

The students of de VCU accomplish an internship on a public or private planning related organization. Through this internship and through the frequent contact with planning profetionals from Virginia, USA and arround the world, the students develop excelents planning skills.

3. What advantages does the city of Richmond represent to those students who decide to study at VCU? 

It is a historical city, with rich traditions, historical neiberhoods and exquisite architecture. Surrounding Richhmond they are many charming historical towns that know face presures from development and new development patterns.  4. What are the different programs offrred at VCU? **

 **Master Richmond planning program are urban revitalization, Historic preservation, geographic information systems (G.I.S), they also ofert planning and law degree.**

** In Venezuela the only way you have to become an Urban planner ( academically speaking) is studying at “Universidad Simon Bolivar” over five years, you can also study architecture in other universities like “Universidad Central de Venezuela”, and after that you must do a graduate course, **** of four years duration, **** in urban planning to complete the career. **
 * In other countries like Australia the Urban planners study during four years, also you can have Masters Degrees and Postgraduate Diplomas. In Mexico for example, you can graduate **** from an Architecture background. In United Kindom you first must complete a degree in a relevant discipline and in the last year of the career must made a Master; and finally in USA, urban planner must complete an undergraduate or graduate degree from a University offering the program of study. **