Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an urban planner can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an urban planner already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

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 known as city planner, urban planning engineer, smart city planner, town planner, country planner, regional planner.

Professionals 82 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: religion scientific researcher, 71%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
religion scientific researcher 71% covered geographer 69% covered palaeontologist 69% covered seismologist 69% covered demographer 69% covered urban planner You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from urban planner, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role an urban planner already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

An urban planner needs 45 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • advise on use of land communication, collaboration and creativity
  • study human population information skills
  • meet building regulations assisting and caring
  • urban sustainability engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • green space strategies engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • spatial planning engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • zoning codes engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • demography social sciences, journalism and information
  • green building practices engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • architecture regulations business, administration and law
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an urban planner does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Urban planner is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an urban planner’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.