Schools for Urban and Regional Planners Occupation
No career colleges offer the vocation programs for Urban and Regional Planners career
General Job Description and Education/Training Levels for Urban and Regional Planners
Most of Urban and Regional Planners occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree). You can check detailed job description, required skiils, activities, and more detailed description at Urban and Regional Planners tasks, skills, and ability page.
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Vocational Programs for Urban and Regional Planners Career
7 vocational programs are closely related to the Urban and Regional Planners occupation - City, Urban, Community and Regional Planning, Sustainable Design, Architecture, and 5 more programs. You can check the schools offering the programs with tuition, length of study, and earning information.
A program that prepares individuals to apply principles of planning, analysis, and architecture to the development and improvement of urban areas and surrounding regions, and to function as professional planners. Includes instruction in principles of architecture; master plan development; service, communications, and transportation systems design; community and commercial development; zoning; land use planning; applied economics; policy analysis; applicable laws and regulations; and professional responsibilities and managerial duties
A program that prepares individuals to create and redevelop housing, offices, retail centers, and industrial sites. Includes instruction in architectural design and construction, historic preservation, landscape architecture, urban planning and design, business, real estate and land use law, public policy, and engineering
A program that focuses on the concept of sustainability from an interdisciplinary perspective. Includes instruction in sustainable development, environmental policies, ethics, ecology, landscape architecture, city and regional planning, economics, natural resources, sociology, and anthropology
A program that focuses on the application of social science principles to the study of urban institutions and the forces influencing urban social and political life. Includes instruction in urban theory, the development and evolution of urban areas, urban sociology, principles of urban and social planning, and the politics and economics of urban government and services