Public Realm Design
Shared outdoor spaces designed for the full range of people who will actually use them — not just to look good on a render.
What’s included
- Street and pedestrian corridor design.
- Plaza and communal gathering space design.
- Seating, shade, shelter, and lighting specification.
- Accessibility and inclusive design to applicable standards.
- Material selection and hardscape detailing.
- Integration with public consultation and community engagement.
Public realm design addresses the shared, publicly accessible outdoor spaces within and around a development — streets, plazas, pedestrian corridors, and communal gathering spaces — that shape a development's civic character and its relationship with the wider community around it. This is landscape design at its most socially engaged, because public realm spaces are used by a far broader range of people, in a far broader range of ways, than private outdoor space.
We design public realm spaces with close attention to genuine usability across different times of day, seasons, and user groups — pedestrian comfort, shade and shelter, seating, accessibility, and safety — alongside the material quality and detailing that gives a public space its character. This work connects closely with our Urbanism & Planning service under the Design vertical and our Public Consultation service under Planning & Consultancy, since well-designed public realm is most successful when shaped with genuine input from the people who will use it.
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