Careers in Planning
A professional who designs, regulates, and manages the physical form, economic functions, and social layout of towns, cities, and metropolitan regions.
What is an urban planner?
They specialize in the development and organization of urban areas and regions, aiming to create sustainable, efficient, and livable environments.
What is an urban planner?
True or False
You need chemistry to study planning.
False.
The legal document used to guide development in the area covered by the order.
What is a Development Order?
Cockpit Country features this distinctive landscape type formed by the dissolution of soluble rocks like limestone.
What is Karst topography?
A professional who designs, analyzes, and manages systems for moving people and goods safely, efficiently, and sustainably across communities, cities, and regions
What is a transportation planner?
World Town Planning Day is observed annually on this day.
What is November 8?
True or False.
You need a degree in economics to become an urban planner.
False.
When preparing a Development Order, NEPA collaborates closely with these local parish authorities who handle local building approvals and municipal services
What are Municipal Corporations?
Icicle-shaped calcium carbonate formations that hang down from the ceiling of a limestone cave are known by this term.
What are stalactites?
A professional who prepares maps, charts and graphs using spatial data, mapping software, and geographic analysis to support and guide land-use, infrastructure, environmental, and urban planning.
What is a GIS Technician/Analyst/Planner?
Name a useful soft skill required for a planner.
Research and Analytical skills
Critical Thinking
Passion for planning and urban design
Good communication skills
Problem Solving
This university offers a bachelor's degree in urban and regional planning.
What is University of Technology (UTECH)?
Before starting any construction in Jamaica, developers must submit their plans to this local government body—working in coordination with NEPA and the Town and Country Planning Authority (TCPA)—to receive official building permission.
What is the Local Planning Authority?
Formed at the mouth of a river where sediment is deposited faster than ocean waves can carry it away, this triangular or fan-shaped feature is named after a Greek letter.
What is a delta?
A professional who's main responsibility is to analyze and evaluate the potential ecological effects of proposed construction, infrastructure, or industrial projects.
What is an environmental planner?
Planning involves architects, engineers, environmentalists, and government officers, planners rely on this collaborative skill to lead multidisciplinary groups smoothly.
What is teamwork/collaboration?
Students aspiring to pursue a career path in planning often earn a Bachelor of Science majoring in this subject at the University of the West Indies.
What is Geography?
When NEPA drafts a Development Order, it works with key infrastructure providers to ensure proposed land uses align with this essential service.
What is the National Works Agency (NWA), National Water Commission (NWC), Jamaica Public Service (JPS), Water Resource Authority (WRA)
The calmest part of a hurricane where the weather suddenly becomes clear and quiet. The biggest mistake one can make is going outside, because this section immediately after brings the storm's most violent, destructive winds.
The eye of a hurricane
A professional focuses primarily on building design (architecture) and code compliance.
Who is an architect planner or architecture urban planner?
It ensures an adequate supply of residential, commercial, and industrial spaces to support rising populations without causing chaotic sprawl.
Why urban planning matters?
Places of employment for this profession in Jamaica.
What is the:
•National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA)
•Urban Development Corporation (UDC)
•Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ)
•Any of the Municipal Corporations eg. Portland Municipal Corporation
•Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM)
•Ministry of Economic Growth and Infrastructure Development (MEGID)
Formed in 2001 by merging the Town Planning Department, NRCA, and LDUC, this agency collects land use island wide, publishes Development Orders, reviews Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) and grants permits for major developments across Jamaica.
What is the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA)?
This hurricane made its first landfall near Kingston on September 12, 1988 as a Category 4 Hurricane
What is Hurricane Gilbert?