Urban and Regional Planner

Urban and regional planners carry out studies and plans for spatial development, participate in land use planning or oversee large-scale urban development projects. They analyze the social, economic and ecological conditions and develop strategies, programs and measures, how the urban development for a region or a district could look like or how an economic location can be improved and companies can be established. For example, they draw up land use and development plans, plan the routing of traffic routes and the location of schools, offices or shopping centers. They take functional, technical, design, legal and organizational aspects into account. Urban and regional planners draw up planning goals and contents, implement planning procedures and work with colleagues from the relevant disciplines such as traffic planning and civil engineering. In addition to the technical and time coordination, they also control the planning and implementation costs in project planning and control. Her duties also include providing contributions to the public discussion and providing information and advice on questions. They can also act as appraisers or experts.

City and regional planners find employment e.g.

• in municipal planning offices or regional planning communities
• in city planning, architecture, traffic planning or landscape planning offices
• at housing and property development companies

The salary level for Urban and Regional Planner in Germany is: from 3234 up to 6355 EUR per month

Why is?

Urban and regional planners develop drafts for environmentally friendly, social and economic local, urban and spatial development. They also draw up construction and financing plans and accompany the implementation of urban development projects.

From analysis to design

They analyze the spatial, but also the social and economic developments of the constantly changing living environment and work out the basics, goals and interests relevant for future decisions. The inventory records the current state - such as the existing development and use, traffic, supply and disposal systems, population or commercial structure - and results in a graphic and graphic representation. This is followed by the preliminary design and draft phases, in which e.g. the draft of the land use plan for a municipality is drawn up. Ideally, these phases lead to the drafting of the draft that can be approved.

Planning tasks

City and regional planners develop e.g. land use planning and development planning for districts, districts or larger districts as well as project and development plans e.g. for building expectation areas. If necessary, they also develop concepts for the use of BIM methods and standards and implement them in project management.

In the land use or preparatory land use plan, the intended type of land use for an entire community is shown, e.g. Areas for structures such as schools, kindergartens and hospitals, traffic, commercial or green spaces. Urban and regional planners carry out preparatory studies on urban redevelopment measures or other planning and design statutes. The goal is legal planning security for municipalities, investors and the general public.

In the expert planning, city and regional planners are responsible, among other things, for urban and location studies as well as for tasks in city marketing or regional management. In so-called informal planning, they lead e.g. urban planning studies and develop redevelopment concepts that prepare or implement the work and planning procedures according to legal requirements as urban development and framework plans or in the form of individual reports. In addition, they take on advisory activities, for example in remediation advice for municipalities, moderation tasks in goal-setting and decision-making processes or in public relations.

Diverse possible uses

City and regional planners moderate discussions on current topics in their field, answer public questions in public information events, hearings and city forums, and present and explain planning projects. In the development and management of projects, they coordinate the contributions of the specialist disciplines involved in the planning and the diverse requirements on the part of different interest groups, authorities and decision-makers. In this way, they make a contribution to the settlement of conflicts of interest. In addition to the technical and time coordination, you must also keep an eye on the implementation costs for a project.

In the district development, city and regional planners design reorganization concepts, e.g. to Upgrading the structural quality in certain parts of the city and strengthening the residential function in order to revitalize inner cities and increase their attractiveness. As part of business development, they collect data on purchasing power, supply and demand for jobs or transport links. This data serves as the basis for the designation of commercial space or the recruitment of industrial companies. Urban and regional planners not only provide planning services for public clients, but also for private investors. They work in urban planning, architecture, traffic planning or landscape planning offices as well as in offices for municipal advice and urban research. Classic areas of application are city planning offices, district planning offices or regional planning groups. There are also employment opportunities with renovation, development and development agencies, in planning departments of project or real estate development companies or in housing and property development companies.