Economy
America’s Hottest Cities for Urban Planners
You might think planners—and urbanists in general—congregate in big coastal metros. But planning jobs are growing fastest elsewhere.
There’s no shortage of lists and rankings of “best places” out there: the best cities for millennials, the best neighborhoods to raise kids, the best places to retire, the world’s most livable cities, and on and on. Since CityLab is a publication devoted to cities and urbanism—one that is written by and for people you could call urbanists—I thought it would be fun to develop a metric for the best places for urbanists.
The first thing I did was use U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data to identify “urbanist” occupations. Here’s the initial list that jumped out: