Urban Developer / Designer

As an urban developer/designer, you will be involved in the planning and designing of groups of buildings and public spaces with the goal of making urban areas functional, attractive, and sustainable.

What do Urban Developers/Designers do?

Urban designers provide project design recommendations for the development of urban areas. In collaboration with government or private agencies, they conduct land surveys and assessment of geographical data, and design streets, landscapes, parks, subway stations, residential complexes, medical facilities and shopping centres.

What does a typical day at work involve?

  • Checked Research and analyse government planning policies to guide development
  • Checked Review geographic information
  • Checked Design and administer government plans or policies affecting land use, public utilities, community facilities, housing, or transportation
  • Checked Graphic representation – from sketching and technical drawing to using computer aided design
  • Checked Conduct feasibility studies
  • Checked Schedule available resources to meet target
  • Checked Supervise or coordinate the work of urban planning technicians or technologists
  • Checked Write reports and present it to planning officials and commissions

What areas can an Urban designer specialise in?

Landscape Architecture involves the planning and design of parks, gardens, waterfront developments and the outdoor spaces of campuses, resorts, businesses and housing areas.
This specialisation deals with the planning and design of road networks and transportation systems in cities and suburbs of the urban area to ensure efficient mobility for people and goods.
This area involves planning and development of housing facilities for the growing urban population
Urban conservation is a specialisation of urban planning and design and it seeks to retain and preserve that part of urban environment which is a part of national or local heritage and ensure that the siting and design of any new developments are in harmony with it.

Urban Developer or Designer Colleges

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Requirements for masters in Urban Developer Designer

Requirements for admission into a PG course in one of the top institutions to help you get an overall picture

India (M.U.D from School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi)

  • A bachelor’s degree in Architecture/ Planning with minimum 55% marks (50% for SC / ST / OBC candidates).
  • Candidates will be evaluated on:
  • Performance in the qualifying examination
  • Qualifying in GATE/CEED
  • Portfolio of work
  • Statement of Purpose
  • Personal Interaction with the program faculty and / or written test

    The cumulative scores from the evaluation is used to prepare the merit list.

Foreign (Master of Urban Planning from National University of Singapore)

  • Undergraduate degree in a spatial design discipline (Architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, urban planning) or a related field of study (urban studies, geography, real estate, civil engineering).
  • A detailed curriculum vitae and /or project portfolio.
  • A minimum TOEFL score of 92 (internet-based testing)

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Skills Required

Communication Skills

Urban planners/designers must be able to communicate effectively to articulate their plans and designs

Critical Thinking

Urban designers/planners must have critical thinking, logic and reasoning skills to identify the solutions to complex problems

Leadership Skills

Urban planners/designers must have the skills to influence, motivate, and enable others to contribute toward the effectiveness of planning assignments

Industries

  • Checked Department of Town and Country Planning
  • Checked Urban Development Projects of the Govt. like KSUDP
  • Checked International bodies like UNDP, ADB
  • Checked Municipal Corporations
  • Checked Multinational Companies related to Urban Planning
  • Checked Civil Engineering, Architecture & Design Firms
  • Checked Real Estate Companies
  • Checked Public Sector Undertakings

Top companies

  • Checked S.K. Das Associated Architects(India)
  • Checked Design Consortium(India)
  • Checked HOK
  • Checked Mas Studio
  • Checked SWA Group

Resources to make use of

Useful links

Videos

What is Urban Planning all about?
What is Urban Planning all about? A video on Principles of Urban Planning
In conversation with Rahul Mehrotra
In conversation with Rahul Mehrotra Prof. Rahul Mehrotra, Head of Department of Planning and Urban Design, Harvard University, speaks about Growth of Indian cities, Urban Design, The urban professional