Urban & Regional Planners

Develop comprehensive plans and programs for use of land and physical facilities of jurisdictions, such as towns, cities, counties, and metropolitan areas.

On the job, you would:

• Design, promote, or administer government plans or policies affecting land use, zoning, public utilities, community facilities, housing, or transportation.
• Advise planning officials on project feasibility, cost-effectiveness, regulatory conformance, or possible alternatives.
• Create, prepare, or requisition graphic or narrative reports on land use data, including land area maps overlaid with geographic variables, such as population density.

Education

• master's degree
• bachelor's degree

Safety and Government

• law and government

Arts and Humanities

• English language

Math and Science

• geography
• sociology and anthropology

Transportation

• movement of people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road

Basic Skills

• listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
• talking to others

People and Technology Systems

• thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
• figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it

Problem Solving

• noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Investigative

People interested in this work like activities that include ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.

• Integrity
• Cooperation
• Dependability
• Analytical Thinking
• Self Control
• Attention to Detail

Verbal

• communicate by speaking
• listen and understand what people say

Ideas and Logic

• notice when problems happen
• make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information

Math

• add, subtract, multiply, or divide
• choose the right type of math to solve a problem