Our Urbanism + Planning practice is a team of industry experts and designers seeking to find sustainable solutions to the most pressing urban problems in cities around the world.
The world is urbanizing rapidly, with that comes challenges. We create connections and lead the transformation and adaptation of places to confront these issues including climate change, urbanization, trade & economic development, movement, and data & future technology.
Our services
Master Planning and Urban Design
Our master planning and urban design team are world leaders in creating sustainable, tangible place-based outcomes that improve our environment, stimulate equitable economic growth and leverage infrastructure investment to shape our local, city and regional communities. Learn more: Urban Design
Landscape Architecture
Working with clients around the world, we operate as an interdisciplinary network across which an open exchange of the best ideas fuels an integrated approach to placemaking. As landscape architects working within a multidisciplinary firm, we are committed to an analytical process, considering functional and performance-based aspects of each place while weaving together authentic characteristics of place. Learn more: Landscape Architecture
Planning
Planning, economics and the environment play integral roles in shaping future cities, particularly through strategy development, policy planning, feasibility studies, development control and sustainability. We are instrumental in forging collaborations to reposition local economies, design master plans, execute regeneration strategies, create more sustainable environments, formulate comprehensive plans, and adopt regulatory and financing strategies that enable effective implementation. Learn more: Planning
Urban Analytics
We are leaders and innovators in the integration of strategy, analytics and technology as it applies to urban planning, urban design, engineering and environmental applications. We develop tools, processes, models and data-rich studies and services to help make sense of our world and guide people toward better decisions for shaping it. We are a resource for data and analytical methods, as well as best practices for decision-making frameworks. We develop, test and promote the next generation of tools that will analyze and design our world. Learn more: Urban Analytics
Sustainability and Resilience
We help to plan and design critical assets, infrastructure, neighborhoods and ecosystems that reduce our impact on the planet and adapt communities and their livelihoods to changing climate, social and economic conditions. Our specialist sustainability and resilience work share best practices and processes, enabling us to develop new and existing tools to bring better, more efficient services to clients.
Speciality Services:
- Advisory
- Strategy and Consulting
- Economics
- Climate Adaptation
- Environmental and Ecological Planning
- Geospatial Services
- Community Engagement
- Concept Architecture
- Signage + Wayfinding
- Branding and Graphic Design
Projects
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