Engineering to Urban Planning

Question

I am considering moving from high tech engineering to urban planning and public policy.

Any urban planners out there have any advice or comments ?

Answer 1

Right now there is a large demand for Landscape planning, the only ones that i know of have more work than they can handle.

Answer 2

Landscape, urban, city, and town planning are the disciplines of land use planning that explore a very wide range of aspects of the built and social environments of urbanized municipalities and communities. Other professions deal in more detail with a smaller scale of development, namely architecture, landscape architecture and urban design. Regional planning deals with a still larger environment, at a less detailed level.

Another key role of urban planning is urban renewal, and re-generation of inner cities by adapting urban planning methods to existing cities suffering from long-term infrastructural decay.