Urban planner
Professional who practices in the field of urban planning / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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An urban planner (also known as town planner) is a professional who practices in the field of town planning, urban planning or city planning.
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Names | City planner, town planner, urban planning engineer, urban planner, rural planner, city planning engineer |
Occupation type | Profession |
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Competencies | Critical thinking, analytical thinking, problem-solving, communicating effectively, working with social, political, business-oriented commercial, economic, cultural, and environmental issues |
Education required | See Urban planning education |
Fields of employment | Construction, building & planning, public administration |
Related jobs | Civil engineer, architect, geographer, historian/preservationist, landscape engineer, landscape architect, quantity surveyor, urban designer, municipal administrator, public administrator |
An urban planner may focus on a specific area of practice and have a title such as city planner, town planner, regional planner, long-range planner, transportation planner, infrastructure planner, environmental planner, parks planner, physical planner, health planner, planning analyst, urban designer, community development director, economic development specialist, or other similar combinations.[1][2] The Royal Town Planning Institute is the oldest professional body of town and urban planners founded in 1914 and the University of Liverpool established the first dedicated planning school in the world in 1909.[3]