The urban design program emphasizes sustainable interventions or strategies at neighborhood, city and emerging city or regional scales. Lectures, studios and seminars provide a broad range of tools for placemaking and consensus seeking, and address alternative landscape and transportation infrastructure, climatic responsiveness, urban preservation, historic typologies, economic strategies, and financing incentives with emerging technologies.
- Architectural team manager
- Ecologist
- Engineer
- Facilitator
- Planner
- Planning and development manager
- Preservation planner
- Principal assistant development control officer
- Principal urban designer
- Project manager
- Senior consultant
- Senior planning services officer
- Transportation planner
- Urban designer
SCAD graduates are in demand at the United States' most recognized companies. Each year, more than 175 companies and organizations visit SCAD to meet and recruit our students and alumni. More than eight out of 10 SCAD 2008 alumni surveyed had been placed in jobs in their fields or had been admitted to graduate school within six months of graduation.
Some employers of SCAD urban design alumni
- Bi-State Regional Commission
- California Department of Conservation
- Environmental Solutions
- HOK
- Klingmann Architects
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
- Parsons Brinckerhoff
- Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
- Preservation Planning Division, City of Charlotte Planning Department
- RBF Consulting
- San Joaquin Council of Governments
- U.S. Bureau of Land Management
- Urban Engineering