This book will answer the question "What does an urban planner do?"Becoming an Urban Planner is a must have career guide for everyone considering or beginning a career in urban planning. Through photographs, drawings, sketches, and in-depth interviews, fifty of today's top planners explain their own career choices and offer advice to tomorrow's planners. The authors include an overview of the profession, education requirements, specialties related to planning, the job search, and the resources a professional planner needs.