Extracurriculars for a Career in Urban Planning
Urban planners decide how cities and towns use land for housing, parks, and transit. Civics programs, design challenges, and local government internships are great places to start.
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Programs for a Career in Urban Planning
Why it fits: Students gain hands-on experience in civic engagement and learn how organizations address community development challenges.
Why it fits: Hands-on involvement in affordable housing solutions and understanding housing policy connects to urban planning priorities.
Why it fits: Trail and campground maintenance work involves landscape design and public space management principles.
Why it fits: Core activity involves imagining, researching, and designing innovative cities to solve pressing sustainability issues.
Why it fits: Exposure to urban planning and design through interdisciplinary summer camp curriculum and projects.
Why it fits: Explores urban design and city planning as college majors; addresses real-world urban planning issues.
Why it fits: Design institute curriculum covers design thinking and collaborative teamwork relevant to community-focused planning work.
Why it fits: Students identify and solve problems facing their communities through service projects and advocacy work.
Why it fits: Students help shape community resources like food gardens and refrigerators that serve local populations.
Why it fits: Program covers planning careers and design skills for the built environment sector with site visits across London.
Why it fits: Students explore and research wildlife and wild places of New York City urban environments.
Why it fits: Field trips to diverse Texas buildings and landscapes build understanding of the built environment and urban design.
Why it fits: Urban Planning track teaches site analysis, design workshops, and critical thinking about city planning challenges and opportunities.
Why it fits: Students gain hands-on experience improving NYC's open spaces and community green infrastructure through horticultural projects.
Why it fits: Focus on smart city innovation and technology solutions for shaping the future of urban living.
Why it fits: Camp explores architectural solutions to real-world design situations, core to urban planning and built environment work.
Why it fits: Urban planning is explicitly featured as a real estate career explored through hands-on activities and site visits.
Why it fits: Students design for their communities' futures, considering impact and relevance to local contexts.