urban planner
Urban planners create development plans for towns, urban areas, cities, and regions. They research the needs of the community or the region (economic, social, transport) and evaluate other parameters such as sustainability in order to present solid programs aimed at the improvement of the site.
Also called: regional planner, urban planning engineer, country planner, city planner, smart city planner, town planner
- 45
- essential skills
- 37
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
- 2164
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Essential skills
45- advise on use of land
- apply for research funding
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- architecture regulations
- build business relationships
- building codes
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- conduct research across disciplines
- demography
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- environmental policy
- evaluate research activities
- execute feasibility study
- green building practices
- green space strategies
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- integrate gender dimension in research
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- liaise with local authorities
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage open publications
- manage personal professional development
- manage research data
- meet building regulations
- mentor individuals
- operate open source software
- perform project management
- perform scientific research
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- publish academic research
- spatial planning
- speak different languages
- study human population
- synthesise information
- think abstractly
- urban planning
- urban sustainability
- use geographic information systems
- zoning codes
Optional skills
37- advise architects
- advise on architectural matters
- advise on building matters
- advise on legislative acts
- advise on pollution prevention
- apply blended learning
- architectural conservation
- bicycle sharing systems
- CAD software
- cartography
- communicate with local residents
- community-led local development
- conduct land surveys
- conduct public surveys
- construction methods
- design spatial layout of outdoor areas
- develop concepts for city marketing
- develop innovative mobility solutions
- ensure infrastructure accessibility
- geography
- historic architecture
- landscape architecture
- plan public housing
- project management
- promote innovative infrastructure design
- promote sustainability
- provide technical expertise
- public housing legislation
- rural development strategies
- scientific modelling
- scientific research methodology
- smart city features
- study traffic flow
- teach in academic or vocational contexts
- topography
- use CAD software
- write scientific publications
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