Description

The Planning Partnership was established in 1995 as a combination of firms and individuals with a mutual passion for all aspects of community-building. Today, our practice combines the broadly defined disciplines of urban design, communications, planning and landscape architecture. We work at all scales, from regional to municipal to community to neighbourhood to site-specific, and in both urban and rural settings. We work for local and regional municipalities, major institutions, community groups, business associations and the private sector. The Planning Partnership's objective is to create award-winning projects, studies and plans for healthy and sustainable development. We have specific expertise planning and designing downtowns, urban centres and corridors, campuses, parks, streetscapes, waterfronts, and transit oriented development. We do research, we plan and we design. We embrace collaboration and work closely with our clients and everyone with a stake in our projects. Our work is based on a deep understanding of market, economic and policy realities. We are: > Specialists in COMMUNICATIONS and ENGAGEMENT, ensuring community involvement is effective at framing and influencing every stage of our planning and design projects; > URBAN DESIGNERS who design the public and private realms to create beautiful, accessible, healthy and sustainable communities, neighbourhoods and places; > LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS who conceptualize, design and oversee the construction of open spaces, parks, urban squares and streetscapes; > URBAN ECOLOGISTS who integrate the biological requirements of successful and healthy urban forests and horticultural elements into all of our landscape designs; > PLANNERS who prepare effective policy frameworks and pragmatic implementation strategies to achieve the distinct social, economic, cultural and environmental objectives of our clients; and, > DEVELOPMENT PLANNERS who offer expert advice, OMB testimony and who facilitate development.