Planning slang

[Daniel P Tasman]

A few days ago, I heard one of my fellow colleauges use the term
"smokestack chasers" to describe economic development planners. This was
the first time I ever heard the term, and it got me thinking - I wonder
what other bits of slang are used by planners to describe aspects of the
profession? I'm not talking about technical terms, but humorous phrases.

A couple of others that I've heard ...

Litter on a stick - freestanding pole sign
Dreamer - comprehensive planner

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Dan Tasman tas...@acsu.buffalo.edu http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~tasman/
UB School of Architecture and Planning http://www.arch.buffalo.edu/
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[Nelson S. Benzing]

In article <549cju$i...@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu>,

tas...@acsu.buffalo.edu (Daniel P Tasman) wrote:

> A few days ago, I heard one of my fellow colleauges use the term
> "smokestack chasers" to describe economic development planners. This was
> the first time I ever heard the term, and it got me thinking - I wonder
> what other bits of slang are used by planners to describe aspects of the
> profession? I'm not talking about technical terms, but humorous phrases.
>
> A couple of others that I've heard ...
>
> Litter on a stick - freestanding pole sign
> Dreamer - comprehensive planner
>

In our neck of the woods, Daniel, anyone not wishing to live on the fringe
is called and "elitist" by some members of our City Council, yet those
same members will refer to anything within the fringe as being "fringy".

Nelson