Sectors · Urban design
Urban Design
Masterplans, public realm and neighbourhood frameworks: the projects that shape places before buildings arrive. Who is hiring.
Knowledge
Working on urban design projects.
Urban design as a sector covers the projects that shape places between buildings: masterplans, public realm, streetscapes and neighbourhood frameworks. These projects set the rules and the quality bar that individual buildings then answer to.
The work carries long horizons and many stakeholders, from councils and developers to the communities who will live with the result. Urban designers move between policy, design guidance and delivered places, and the discipline draws on architecture, planning and landscape in equal measure.
This hub gathers the live picture for urban design projects: who is hiring, which teams are growing, and the conversations shaping the sector right now. For the careers view, see the urban design industry hub.
- Place is the product
Masterplans, public realm and streetscape projects shape the places between buildings.
- Many hands, long horizons
These projects carry long timelines and many stakeholders, from councils to communities.
- The frame comes first
Urban design projects create the framework that architecture then fills in.
Practices
Practices connected to Urban Design.
Learn
Learn about urban design.
- PodcastWriting, Curating, Strategising: Lucy Bullivant’s Urbanist ToolkitThe Architecture Social PodcastListen
- GuideWriting, Curating and Place Strategy: An Urbanist Toolkit with Lucy BullivantCPD guide from the podcastRead
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