Since our founding year, we have been innovating, testing, and evolving the practice of urban design. We believe that all places, urban and rural, new and established, can have a remarkable sense of place, serve as diverse and exciting places to live, and thrive today and into the future. Our name, Urban Design Associates, implies our collaborative process. Our firm is based on clear communication and consensus building, rigorous analysis, testing, and coordination to reach workable, creative solutions in challenging contexts, whatever they be. We build on the unique character and positive qualities of each place in which we are privileged to work. By working at many scales, we find ways of coordinating the design of individual buildings; the public spaces they help create; the neighborhoods, towns, and cities of which they are a part; and the regional culture they celebrate into a viable, sustainable, and vital urban tapestry. Our projects are conceived as three-dimensional environments through the use of perspective drawing and modeling techniques in the early stages of conceptual design. The character and quality of building designs and landscape elements become part of the planning process when the most important decisions are made.
