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Urban and Regional Planners
Develop comprehensive plans and programs for use of land and physical facilities of jurisdictions, such as towns, cities, counties, and metropolitan areas.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Design, promote, or administer government plans or policies affecting land use, zoning, public utilities, community facilities, housing, or transportation.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Advise planning officials on project feasibility, cost-effectiveness, regulatory conformance, or possible alternatives.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Create, prepare, or requisition graphic or narrative reports on land use data, including land area maps overlaid with geographic variables, such as population density.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Hold public meetings with government officials, social scientists, lawyers, developers, the public, or special interest groups to formulate, develop, or address issues regarding land use or community plans.Mostly human for now
- 05Mediate community disputes or assist in developing alternative plans or recommendations for programs or projects.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Recommend approval, denial, or conditional approval of proposals.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Conduct field investigations, surveys, impact studies, or other research to compile and analyze data on economic, social, regulatory, or physical factors affecting land use.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Evaluate proposals for infrastructure projects or other development for environmental impact or sustainability.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Discuss with planning officials the purpose of land use projects, such as transportation, conservation, residential, commercial, industrial, or community use.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Keep informed about economic or legal issues involved in zoning codes, building codes, or environmental regulations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss10%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
48%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 94% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 41% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Hold public meetings with government officials, social scientists, lawyers, developers, the public, or special interest groups to formulate, develop, or address issues regarding land use or community plans.