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Belfast City Centre Regeneration Strategy and Investment Plan

The Belfast City Centre Regeneration Strategy and Investment Plan provides a framework for change at a critical time for Belfast. In April 2015 Belfast City Council assumed new responsibilities including community planning as part of the ongoing reform of local government in Northern Ireland. At the same time new opportunities...

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Villiers Island Precinct Plan

The Villiers Island Precinct Plan is an ambitious and inspirational plan to guide the transformation of an industrial area into a new sustainable and inclusive neighbourhood in Toronto’s Port Lands. The area known as Villiers Island will be created through the naturalization of the Don River, flood protection, and the...

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Rideau Heights Regeneration Strategy

The Rideau Heights Regeneration Strategy remakes a 32-hectare, 1960s social housing complex in Kingston into a new mixed-income neighborhood with market condominiums, new park configurations and better street connections. The multi-phased, 25-year Strategy aims to improve the safety and functionality of the neighbourhood, better integrate it with the surrounding community,...

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Tottenham Regeneration Strategy

Urban Strategies were retained in 2013 to prepare a Strategic Regeneration Framework for Tottenham, a deprived and troubled district in north-east London. Tottenham is however home to Spurs, a premier league football club who have ambitious plans for the construction of a new stadium. The White Hart Lane site is...

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Alexandra Park Revitalization

Urban Strategies worked with the Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) to develop and implement a revitalization plan for the Alexandra Park neighbourhood. This is an 18-acre social housing development built in the 1970s in Downtown Toronto. Urban Strategies was engaged starting in 2009 to develop a master plan for Alexandra...

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Downtown Detroit

Downtown Detroit Reinvestment Strategy (1996 - 1999) Urban Strategies helped guide downtown Detroit’s physical regeneration after 30 years of decline. In 1996 we were retained by the Greater Downtown Partnership, a public/private corporation created by the Mayor, to lead a consulting team charged with preparing a Reinvestment Strategy for the...

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St. Louis Gateway Mall Park Plan

Urban Strategies was retained to create a transformational plan for downtown St. Louis’ principal open space, the two-kilometre long Gateway Mall. Largely rundown and underused, the Mall was not contributing to the positive changes being experienced in the rejuvenation of downtown St. Louis. The team, led by Urban Strategies and in collaboration...

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Toronto Waterfront Revitalization

Introduction The site contains 2,000 acres of largely vacant and underutilized industrial lands and open space resources including over 170 hectares (400 acres) of new parks, a continuous waterfront promenade, new cultural and tourism facilities, 40,000 new housing units and 10 million square feet of new space to feed new...

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London Docklands

As the lead consultants on a range of redevelopment and visioning projects in the area, Urban Strategies has prepared master plan documents for lands totaling approximately 570 acres within the docklands, with a built-out yield of approximately 40,000 new residential units, and commercial space to accommodate approximately 20,000 new jobs....

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Singapore

1. Greater Southern Waterfront Design Consultancy (2009 - 2010) Singapore’s Urban Redevelopment Authority invited international design firms to harness fresh and innovative master planning concepts for the long term transformation of Singapore’s Greater Southern Waterfront into one of the great urban waterfronts of the world. Urban Strategies led a multi...

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Infrastructure Ontario Vendor of Record

Infrastructure Ontario (IO) is the provincial agency charged with managing Ontario’s real estate assets. In 2011 Urban Strategies was selected as IO’s Land Use Planning Vendor of Record for the Toronto area. Since that time we have been engaged by IO on numerous assignments ranging from site analyses, optimal use reports, due diligence reviews,...

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Guiyang Garden City

Urban Strategies is collaborating with a diverse team of technical specialists in preparing the master plan for Guiyang Garden City, a 1,290 acre (522 hectare) site in Guiyang, China. The City of Guiyang is forecast to receive considerable growth in population by 2030. Guiyang Garden City has a significant opportunity...

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Toronto Tall Buildings

Urban Strategies led a multi-disciplinary team in developing a strong, detailed, defensible, and comprehensive set of performance standards for tall buildings in Toronto’s downtown core. The final report identifies appropriate locations and heights for tall buildings and set out regulations for how they should be designed in order to relate...

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Buffalo Brownfields Opportunity Study

Urban Strategies, in collaboration with URS, was the lead consultant for the South Buffalo Brownfield Opportunity Area (BOA) Study. The study involved the preparation of a Masterplan and New York State Brownfield Nomination Document for New York State’s largest Brownfield Opportunity Area. An 800 hectare area adjacent to Buffalo’s downtown...