WHAT WE D0
We not only do urban design and strategic planning for new or existing developments, but we also create strategies and unique partnerships to activate, nurture, and manage public spaces. We believe in the ability of urban space to become productive and performative so that it generates exciting social experiences, and economic vitality, that positively impact the surrounding neighborhoods.
Design Trust for Public Space · Jul 1, 2022
A policy toolkit to provide small businesses and place-based organizations with strategies to activate public space in commercial corridors in NYC neighborhoods.
Cyclic Urbanism: Linking Cycles, Rethinking Territories, and Imagining Futures
ISBN: 978-9-4601899-7-5 | Published by K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2016
Racha Daher: Editor of Publication, Studio Tutor and Coordinator.
Active Design: Shaping the Sidewalk Experience
New York City Department of City Planning, with support from the NYC Departments of Health and Mental Hygiene and Design and Construction, New York, 2011
Alexandra Gonzalez: Urban Researcher, Concept and content developer
https://centerforactivedesign.org/sidewalks
Tools and Resources | Active Design: Shaping the Sidewalk Experience
New York City Department of City Planning, with support from the NYC Departments of Health and Mental Hygiene and Design and Construction, New York, 2011
Alexandra Gonzalez: Urban Researcher, Concept and content developer
Urban Development in Accra Ghana: An Implementation Toolkit
ISBN: 978-0-9822174-1-2 | Published by the Urban Design Lab at The Earth Institute, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, 2011
Racha Daher: Urban Researcher, Designer and Co-Editor of publication
By The City For The City: An Atlas of Possibility for the Future of New York
ISBN: 978-0-9820861-1-7 | Published by Multi-Story Books, Institute for Urban Design, New York, 2011
Contribution by Alexandra Gonzalez and Racha Daher: pg 278, 279 _ SWIM (Storm Water Industry and Management) -The Bronx River, NYC
Contribution by Alexandra Gonzalez and Gabriela Callejas: pg x, x _ OWN (Organic Waste Network)-NYC
First Prize urban design award recipient.