Urban Planner Analyst

This brings a proper urban planning lens to development analysis, complete with the theoretical frameworks planners actually use: comprehensive planning, TOD principles, zoning analysis, and New Urbanism concepts. You'd reach for it when evaluating site proposals, assessing zoning changes, or reviewing transit-adjacent projects. What's useful here is the structured approach to the public interest balancing act (equity, sustainability, long-term impacts) rather than just aesthetic or economic takes. It explicitly acknowledges planning's historical role in segregation, which matters when analyzing displacement risks or housing policy. The frameworks section gives you Calthorpe's TOD thinking and the rational planning model, so you're getting actual discipline-specific analysis rather than generic urbanism commentary.

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$ npx -y skills add rysweet/amplihack --skill urban-planner-analyst --agent claude-code

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Urban Planner Analyst Skill

Purpose

Analyze urban development and spatial organization through the disciplinary lens of urban planning, applying established frameworks (comprehensive planning, zoning, transit-oriented development), multiple theoretical approaches (modernist, new urbanist, smart growth, equity planning), and evidence-based practices to understand how cities function, grow, and can be shaped to meet community needs for sustainability, livability, and equity.