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Urban Design
The design of places between buildings: streets, squares, neighbourhoods and masterplans. What urban design covers, who does it and who is hiring.
Knowledge
Working in urban design.
Urban design is the design of the places between buildings: streets, squares, neighbourhoods and whole districts. Urban designers shape masterplans and public realm, working at the scale where architecture meets planning.
People arrive from architecture, planning and landscape, and the Urban Design Group is the UK's membership body for the discipline. Employers range from design practices and consultancies to local authorities and developers, and the work spans policy, design guidance and delivered places.
This hub gathers the live picture for urban design: who is hiring, which teams are growing, and the conversations shaping the discipline right now.
- It designs between buildings
Streets, squares and neighbourhoods: urban design shapes the places architecture sits within.
- It draws three disciplines
Architecture, planning and landscape all feed into urban design, and all three are welcomed.
- It works at every scale
From a single square to a whole district, urban designers move between policy and delivered places.
Roles
Roles in urban design.
Each role hub carries live jobs, people and salary guidance for that title.
Learn
Learn about urban design.
- PodcastWriting, Curating, Strategising: Lucy Bullivant’s Urbanist ToolkitThe Architecture Social PodcastListen
- PodcastFrom Setbacks to Success: Ste Taylor’s Journey to Head of Design at TurleyThe Architecture Social PodcastListen
- PodcastRuchi Sabale, Associate and Project Manager in ArchitectureThe Architecture Social PodcastListen
- GuideWriting, Curating and Place Strategy: An Urbanist Toolkit with Lucy BullivantCPD guide from the podcastRead
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Move within urban design.
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