Skills for Future Planners

The skills presented are necessary for competent professional planning in diverse occupational and institutional settings. This session intends to cover the following areas related to skills and tools for planning:
1. Planning process and community and stakeholder engagement; plan creation and implementation; methods of design and intervention to understand and influence the future.
2. Research and critical analysis skills for preparing and conducting research; quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection, analysis, and forecasting; methods of geo-spatial analysis, mapping and data visualization; data analytics and urban technology.
3. Ability to work in teams and with professionals in allied fields; professional leadership in the planning context; written, oral, and graphic communication.

NPC Peer Reviewers assigned this presentation a learning level of Foundational. For more on learning-level descriptions, visit our General Information Page.