Urban Design Companies in the United States

  1. SWA

    SWA

    Established in 1957, SWA is an international landscape architecture, planning and urban design firm renowned for the creativity, responsiveness, and resilience of its work.

  2. DLANDstudio

    DLANDstudio

    DLANDstudio is an interdisciplinary design firm founded in 2005 by Susannah C. Drake, FASLA, AIA. The firm, born from her vision of making cities more ecologically productive, develops methods to layer environmental, engineering, and political structures to make real change in the built environment. Located in Brooklyn, New York, DLANDstudio's unique design practice redefines the role of public space to incorporate infrastructural systems, restore native ecologies, and mitigate climate change.

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    MAS Studio

    MAS studio is a collaborative architecture and urban design firm directed by Iker Gil. The work of MAS studio takes a multidisciplinary approach to a wide range of projects, from temporal pavilions to large scale buildings and urban planning.

  4. OJB Landscape Architecture

    OJB Landscape Architecture

    OJB Landscape Architecture is a leading urban design, planning and landscape architecture firm with offices in San Diego, Boston and Houston.

  5. Cooper Robertson

    Cooper Robertson

    Cooper Robertson practices award-winning architecture and urban design with both disciplines working together at a range of scales. Our New York City-based staff skillfully addresses large-scale urban design challenges, shapes major cultural and educational buildings, and crafts exceptional private residences and resorts. As waterfront design experts, we have worked at the local, state, and national levels to plan for resilient place-making in the advent of climate change.

  6. OLIN

    OLIN

    OLIN is a landscape architecture, urban design and planning firm with studios in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, known for creating iconic and vibrant landscapes. The studio remains at the forefront of the design profession by uniting a dynamic design process, rigorous research and analysis.

  7. WXY

    WXY

    WXY is an award-winning multi-disciplinary practice specializing in the realization of urban design, planning and architectural solutions in challenging contexts. Focused on innovative approaches to public space, structures and urban issues, the firm's work engages both site-specific design and planning at multiple scales. The firm's commissions are in collaboration with community-based, public authority, and private clients.

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    Opticos Design

    Opticos Design is a Berkeley, CA-based urban design and planning firm specializing in Form-Based Coding. Opticos was one of the first B Corporations, and in 2012, one of 12 initial California Benefit Corporations, a revolutionary new kind of business that equally integrates environmental, social, and fiscal responsibility into decision making.

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    CityWorks

    CityWorks is an urban design firm focusing on smart growth and transit oriented development.

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    Studio for Spatial Practice

    Studio for Spatial Practice is an innovative award winning design firm specializing in projects that transform the public realm through architecture, urban design, landscape and art.

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    Taylor Siefker Williams Design Group

    The Taylor Siefker Williams Design Group is a collaboration of creative and innovative landscape architects and planners who believe that quality design, strategic planning and bold vision are among the most long-lasting and powerful instruments of healthy, thriving communities. We provide creative solutions for landscape architecture, community planning, urban design, visioning and strategic planning projects.

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    Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company

    With over 30 years in the practice of architecture and urban planning, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company has earned an international reputation creating over 300 projects for a wide range of built environments in the United States and abroad. The work of the firm spans the design spectrum and crosses a number of disciplines, residences to master planning and regional planning, from conducting academic research to drafting municipal codes.