Urbanism & Planning
Design at the scale of streets, neighbourhoods, and public space — shaping how buildings and the spaces between them work together as a place.
What’s included
- Urban design framework and street section design.
- Public realm and open space design.
- Building-to-street relationship and active frontage planning.
- Density and massing study.
- Pedestrian movement and connectivity analysis.
- Integration with existing settlement patterns and local urban character.
Urbanism and planning extends design thinking beyond the individual building to the scale of the street, neighbourhood, and settlement — the spatial relationships between buildings, public space, circulation networks, and the broader urban or landscape fabric a development sits within. Good urban design isn't simply the sum of well-designed individual buildings; it's the deliberate shaping of how those buildings, and the spaces between them, work together to create a genuinely functional and liveable place.
This discipline works closely with our Master Planning service under Planning & Consultancy, but focuses more specifically on the urban design detail — street sections, public realm design, building-to-street relationships, density and massing studies — that gives a master plan its physical, walkable, human-scale reality. We design with close attention to how a development will integrate with existing settlement patterns and local urban character, rather than imposing a generic urban form disconnected from its context.
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