Urban planning and territorial development, professional focus in Redesigning post-industrial cities (RePIC)

Job opportunities

The profession is currently in short supply in Belgium. Employability in this sector is therefore particularly high. Many public and private sector players are looking to renew or strengthen their teams by hiring skilled professionals in urban planning and territorial development. Graduates may, for example, work for private consultancies (geomarketing, impact studies, tourism engineering), municipal and regional administrations, intermunicipal economic development agencies, real estate operators, associations (environmental protection, alternative mobility, etc.), or in teaching and scientific research.

As a RePIC graduate, you can find a job in the public sector in fields such as:

• Public urban planning / Neighborhood management ;
• Community development ;
• Municipal administrations;
• Geospatial data analysis and visualization

There are also opportunities for you, as a RePIC graduate, in government organizations at local, national and European level:

• Governmental organizations at local, national, European and international level;
• Social work organizations;
• The third sector, NGOs involved in neighborhood development;
• Foundations and organizations concerned with urban development and transformation;
• Companies and organizations focused on metropolitan transitions, for example in sectors such as energy, data management, mobility, health, housing and education;
• Consulting firms focused on innovation and change management;
• Design agencies/companies, development agencies, architecture/construction firms;
• Real estate developers, architectural and urban planning consultancies or regional planning consultancies UNIC site.