Description
Design urban form, master plans, and public realm strategies for cities and neighborhoods, integrating land use, transportation, and infrastructure to create functional, attractive, and sustainable places.
- • Design and promote urban design frameworks, streetscapes, and public realm strategies aligned with land use and zoning policies.
- • Provide design review recommendations on development proposals.
- • Create diagrams, renderings, maps, and narrative reports illustrating urban form, massing, and public realm concepts.
- • Advise officials and developers on design feasibility, context fit, regulatory conformance, and alternatives.
- • Conduct site analyses, field surveys, and photo documentation to assess context, walkability, microclimate, and physical constraints.
- • Facilitate design charrettes and stakeholder meetings to define goals for streets, public spaces, and mixed-use districts.
- • Stay current on zoning, building codes, accessibility standards, and design guidelines.
- • Mediate design-related community concerns and develop alternative site and streetscape concepts.
- • Coordinate with architects, landscape architects, engineers, and transportation planners on integrated urban design solutions.
- • Review development proposals for urban design quality, human scale, and public realm impact; contribute to visual and environmental assessments.
- • Supervise urban design and planning technicians in drafting, modeling, and graphics production.
- • Lead public presentations and workshops to communicate design concepts and gather feedback.
- • Promote sustainable, resilient, and equitable design strategies, including green infrastructure and complete streets.
- • Design pedestrian- and transit-oriented environments, complete streets, and multimodal networks.
- • Evaluate site plans and infrastructure designs for placemaking, accessibility, and sustainability.
- • Integrate passive design, shade, urban forestry, and stormwater management into public realm plans.
- • Assess how zoning, setbacks, and height limits affect massing, frontage, and streetscape design.
- • Assess design feasibility and recommend revisions to improve urban form and user experience.
- • Analyze site capacity, parcel configurations, and block networks to support desired urban form.
- • Conduct user and business surveys and site inspections to understand pedestrian flows and public space use.
- • Prepare illustrated design reports using plans, sections, 3D views, and metrics such as FAR, density, and open space ratios.
- • Prepare and maintain base maps, 3D models, and design GIS data.
- • Maintain project files, drawing sets, and versioned design assets.
- • Research case studies, precedents, and codes to inform urban design guidelines and standards.
- • Respond to public inquiries about design guidelines, streetscape projects, and public realm changes.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
