Hello,

The best books to refer for concept building are-

1)Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery

2)How to Study Public Life: Methods in Urban Design by Jan Gehl and Birgitte Svarre.

3)The Planning Game: Lessons from Great Cities by Alexander Garvin

4) Image of the City By Kevin Lynch

5)Good City by Kevin Lynch

Hope this helps.

Hello aayushi, hope you are doing well!

Firstly no field is bad if you have interest in it. And here I will tell you all about urban design and it's scope in India. If you want to go ahead with urban designing, you will be getting jobs like urban planner, urban designer, etc. Honestly, this field is not well developed in India. It's is like it in a nascent stage. This field is much defined in USA, Europe, Hongkong, etc. The salary in this field is an average of 37,940 per month. For being placed well in future, bachelor's degree is not enough. It is recommended to have a master's degree as well. Course for the degree of urban design includes subjects like industrial design, animation software, sociology and history in architecture.

Hope this was helpful, feel free to ask more!

Hi AAyushi,

CEPT University, Ahmedabad is very well-reputed in terms of placements as the department for the same is efficient at their work, which is providing placements to their students.  Placements are provided in companies such as HDFC, Reliance Realty, DLF among many others.

The total fees for the five-year Bachelor of Urban Design UG course is Rs. 16 Lakhs. However, it is advisable to go for a Master's degree to get a better starting package. The Master of Urban Design course is a two-year PG course at Rs. 7.56 Lakhs total fees.