Planning & Urban Design

Creating sustainable, equitable and dynamic communities

Our Urban Design practice places the needs of people and communities at the heart of its process with the intent of fostering broad-based health and wellbeing. To achieve these goals, we implement a balanced approach that considers the vast and changing array of social, environmental, and economic elements communities contend with in their ambitions for a culturally rich and communally peaceful society.

This practice is multi-disciplinary due to the vastness of its potential outputs: buildings, groups of buildings, spaces and landscapes – all of which representing varied typologies, objectives, and users. This requires a highly collaborative, strategic, and agile process that implicates designers, planners, architects, landscapers, engineers, sustainability strategists, economists, politicians, and an array of statisticians & data modellers. Our main areas of practice are :

Transportation and mobility

We bring deep expertise to transportation organizations and municipalities in the planning and design of transportation facilities and infrastructure.

Urban planning

We work with municipalities, RCMs and other public organizations in planning the development of their territory.

Economic and urban development

Economic and urban development vision, assessment of development potential, residential, commercial and industrial development strategy, housing policy and socio-demographic and socio-economic study.

Urban planning and design

Assisting transportation organizations, municipalities and real estate developers in the planning, design of urban and landscape facilities.

Development and real estate

Assisting public agencies in assessing development potential and directions.

Support real estate developers in project development and approval.

As urban designers and planners, the constants that we continue to be challenged by are: 1. the growth of cities and 2. the changing needs within them. Based on these fundamentals, and as we look to the future considering relevant macro trends – i.e. population growth & ageing, climate change, urban mobility, affordable housing, supply chains, globalization v localization, broad implications of data, AI, VR, AR, etc. – we envision these constants remaining while greatly increasing in complexity and severity.

It is through a commitment to our vision – to become a leader in innovation, addressing the biggest challenges of our time, for humanity’s wellbeing – that we will continue to serve the design and planning needs of cities and communities through the monumental changes they will encounter in both the near and distant futures.

When choosing Ædifica's urban design team, you get:

1. Strategic assistance to guide your decisions and priorities
2. An integrated approach to planning the development of your properties, infrastructures or territory
3. A range of services to help you manage and approve your projects