30-06-2025
Urban design job listings are up 102%. This might be why
Fast Compan y's new analysis of job listings across several design disciplines puts a number on it: job postings for urban designers are up 102% compared to the previous year.
This boom may reflect the increasing relevance of the kind of work urban designers do, which is to create functioning communities and regions. Spanning architecture, city planning, landscape architecture, and urban development, urban design takes in the whole picture of a city and looks for ways that interventions at all scales can improve the system.
'It's really a field of integration,' says Tyler Patrick, chair of the planning and urban design department at Sasaki, a large multidisciplinary design firm. Patrick says that Sasaki has been hiring more and more urban designers every year, and including their input on nearly every project. 'It's a field that continues to add a lot of value.'
