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Tag: Mixed ownership

Understanding Constraints and Opportunities when designing urban spaces

April 15, 2025June 23, 2025

Urban spaces are under pressure due to the increasing density within cities, which aims to address the lack of housing. Designers strive to create welcoming spaces that meet the client’s design objectives, encompassing environmental, social, and economic considerations. However, many issues need to be considered. The following tips can help designers understand the opportunities and […]

Posted in Blog, Design, Landscape, Landscape Architecture, Management, Opinion, Urban, WritingTagged Adaptive reuse, Budget management, Climate adaptation, Community engagement, Community participation, Construction challenges, Cultural context, Design Collaboration, Design opportunities, Design process, Design resilience, Environmental constraints, Environmental planning, Green infrastructure, landscape architecture, Landscape strategy, Liveability, Local materials, Maintenance planning, Mixed ownership, Nature based solutions, Post occupancy evaluation, Public realm, Public space, Regulatory planning, Site analysis, Smart city design, Social impact, Sustainable cities, Technological innovation, Time constraints, Urban biodiversity, Urban constraints, urban design, Urban ecology, Urban mobility, urban planning, Urban policy, Urban redevelopment, Urban regeneration

Recent Writing

  • From Design to Demand: Key Strategies for Marketing Your Design Firm
    Design firms thrive or falter based on their ability to attract new clients or secure projects from existing ones. All design firms require the ability to market their business to… Read more: From Design to Demand: Key Strategies for Marketing Your Design Firm
  • Reviving Landscape Architecture: Attracting New Students
    Article by Damian Holmes, Founder & Editor of World Landscape Architecture Recent years have shown an anecdotal decline in landscape architecture enrollments, influenced by factors such as economic downturns, rising… Read more: Reviving Landscape Architecture: Attracting New Students
  • Op-Ed: Climate Change Action Beyond Projects
    Over recent years, there has been a beneficial shift in the focus of landscape architects to reduce the impact of climate change worldwide through the design of landscape-led projects, which… Read more: Op-Ed: Climate Change Action Beyond Projects
  • Why your design business needs systems
    Regardless of their size, your design firms require a set of systems that provide a defined series of workflows and decision-making processes. These can be informal or formal systems that… Read more: Why your design business needs systems
  • Activation to greater green spaces
    I wrote this op-ed as I had started to see many new projects that are largely “activation” within cities rather than addressing the environmental issues. More and more public spaces… Read more: Activation to greater green spaces
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