Skills Required
The skills required for the course study of Urban Planning are as follows:
- Vision: the ability to envision the physical and social alternatives to the existing urban context.
- Data collection: Often in challenging the environments over a short period of time, requires not only qualitative or quantitative research skills but also shares exceptional organization skills and the adaptation to changing circumstances.
- Analysis: The sense of demographic information to recognize urban trends.The analysis of the overall context, its data, and the stakeholders which make early stages of this planning process.
- Understanding the social and environmental impact of plans, as well as design and aesthetics.
- Communication (external): being able to clearly link the ideas and plans into work, whether through one-to-one or with a public presentation or in a report, this should not be underestimated.
- Communication and the collaboration (internal): create an environment where the information is shared, where more constant and clear communication, the more is the effective team.
- Project Management managing resources (personnel, financial and IT). Before the work commences, its vital to identify a team with the right mix of the skills and the realistically estimate the timeframe and budget required to get the job done.
- Lead a multidisciplinary team.
- Stakeholder Management, which involves and influences the range of the stakeholders, where the negotiation, facilitation, mediation, and advocacy.
- Delivering despite the constraints.
