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Specialties that pay

• Stormwater and green infrastructure

  Cities are under legal orders to manage runoff, and this is the design work that does it.

• Transportation and streetscape

  Funded by highway budgets, which are large and steady.

• Ecological restoration

  Wetlands, shorelines and river corridors. Slow, technical, increasingly funded.

• Golf course design

  A genuine niche of this profession with its own small group of practitioners.

• Three-dimensional modeling and visualization

  Firms win work with images. People who can make convincing ones get hired.