Occupation Atlasurban planner
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/e14548c8-c2b9-4ef8-8670-d5967d7ad804
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.
Job Zone
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Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed
Extensive preparation. Usually a graduate degree, with extensive skill, knowledge and experience — many of these occupations expect more than five years of experience.
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Occupational interest profile
IECInvestigative · Enterprising · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order
- I Investigative5.31
- E Enterprising4.46
- C Conventional3.96
- R Realistic3.22
- A Artistic3.06
- S Social3.03
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Urban and Regional Planners (19-3051.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, a broader O*NET occupation that includes this one, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (45)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- 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 (37)
- CAD software
- 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
- 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
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
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