Cities & Communities

Partnering with stakeholders and clients, we develop designs that grow, connect, or revitalize urban areas with vision and purpose. That’s how we’ve shaped some of the most restorative global communities.

From facilitating the planning of a nation’s health system to revitalizing a historic theater through equity and community engagement, we design to build belonging.

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Sheba Ross

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Towards Wellness in Design: A Framework for Evaluating the Urban Built Environment

How can the built environment foster positive health outcomes long before any patient steps foot into a hospital? According to the United Nations, approximately 68% of the world’s population will be living in cities or other urban centers by 2050.

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Limitless Panel Weighs How Transit-Oriented Development Can Curb Inequity Among Neighborhoods

The term “return on investment” (ROI) usually hinges on money. Investors often look at how much money a project will bring back to them and in some cases, to the surrounding communities, to help determine whether they want to commit to the project.

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Dallas’ Southern Gateway Park Will Bridge Generations of Divide and Inequity

When Interstate 35 was built through Dallas in the 1950s, the highway connected the city to other major U.S. cities and opened vital trade and other new opportunities.

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How Dallas Can Become a Model for Smart Growth Amid Climate Change

For more than a century, Dallas city leaders have struggled to transform the Trinity River into the unifying “center of a great city” that urban planner George Kessler once envisioned.

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ProMedica Headquarters Transforms Downtown Toledo

Close your eyes. Imagine a city in the Midwest, one rich in natural resources at the juncture of a Great Lake and a major river.

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How Design Can Enhance the Brain Health of a Rapidly Aging Population

By 2050, an estimated 2.1 billion people worldwide will be over 60 — a staggering number more than double the current population of older adults. In a rapidly aging society, we face major challenges of rising senior care and housing costs, not to mention the effects of physical and mental illness that increase as we get older.

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San Diego Port Integrated Master Plan

Creating a Shared Sustainable Vision for the Next 50 Years

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Aurora Highlands Design Guidelines

A Plan for a Diverse, Sustainable, Vibrant Community

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Piedmont Atlanta Hospital Marcus Tower

A Medical Tower that Embraces Southern Hospitality

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Our Cities & Communities portfolio includes urban design, master planning, geospatial analytics, community engagement, research, advisory and sustainability consulting.

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