Urban and Regional Planners
Plans how towns and cities grow: housing, transportation, parks and more.
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Urban and regional planners work with communities to decide where housing, roads, transit, parks and businesses should go, review development plans and write zoning rules. Most work for local and county governments.
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Urban and Regional Planners on O*NET OnLine · O*NET 31.0 (U.S. Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0); BLS Employment Projections 2025.