Company Overview

What we do:

Our multidisciplinary firm of planners and designers focuses on the complex processes of city building by thinking carefully about places, people and environments. We analyse, vision, negotiate, plan, and design urban environments primarily within the public realm - places where cultures and communities thrive and flourish.

Serving both public and private clients, our work is characterized by thorough project management, comprehensive planning analysis, a strong and clear commitment to beauty through design, and a willingness to understand the uniqueness of each place where we work. All of our projects benefit from our highly collaborative approach. We work on a variety of scales, from campus master planning to the analysis of specific redevelopment sites, and in diverse settings, from the Canadian Arctic to China.

Planning — is about addressing a myriad of land use, social, economic, political, environmental and design issues in a comprehensive, in-depth and rational manner. Planning is an integrated discipline that demands analysis and understanding of processes, systems, places and people that have the potential to impact, and to be impact by, a plan.

Design — is about consolidating ideas and offering unique solutions that fit specific places by meeting specific challenges. Through design, we seek to improve and inspire living environments. Design is about innovation and imagination, but also about providing professional opinion with integrity.

Consultation — is about involving people in a process, and ensuring that it is inclusive of a broad array of ideas, perspectives and possibilities. Planning and design rooted in consultation is understood to be a dialogue that positions a plan to be implementable, legitimate and congruent with how people live, work and play.

Strategy — is about understanding that all projects are rooted in a specific political and economic context that makes their viability unique, and sometimes tenuous. A strategic plan demands an integrated approach that considers key issues: how will this plan come to fruition? Who will be involved? Is it, or how can it, be economically viable?

Our Services:
• Architectural Competition
• Administration
• Downtown Revitalization
• Waterfront Plans
• Open Space Master Plans
• Campus Master Plans
• Visioning Studies
• Site Analysis + Massing Studies
• Planning Approvals
• Peer Review
• Site Planning
• 3D Modelling
• Public Consultation + Facilitation
• Urban Design Guidelines
• Expert Testimony
• Policy Analysis + Development
• Community + Economic Development
• Implementation Strategies
• Project Management
• Development Review
• Branding + Communication Strategies
• Streetscape + Civic Space Design

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