Award winning urban design and ecological planting

Cityscapes is a not-for-profit social enterprise design studio, specialising in bringing new approaches to the ways in which the urban environment is designed, managed and inhabited, through innovative greening projects in the urban realm.

 

Employing cross-disciplinary approaches that combine urban ecology and horticulture with placemaking strategies, in order to bring people and plants together within inclusive spaces that are responsive to site and cultural contexts, and which maximise the potential for engagement and health and wellbeing benefits.

 

Every project is carefully considered in terms of environmental, social and economic sustainability, with a particular focus on reuse of materials, and their place within a circular economy.

 

Urban infrastructure and resilient ecologically-based planting are central to the practice, across the design and delivery of parks, pocket parks, SuDS rain gardens and street planting.

 

A particular focus is on the challenges of a changing climate, addressed through the creation of sustainable, ecological planting schemes with drought-adapted plants, based on the science of natural plant communities. These novel ecosystems provide benefits for people, as well as resources and habitat for the other forms of biodiversity in cities.

 

Cityscapes has worked across a wide range of different urban projects of varying scales, and is experienced in delivering services including masterplanning, detailed design, planting design, specification, tendering and planning, while working to time scales and managing budgets. Cityscapes also provides on-site management and construction delivery, planting, and project aftercare.

 

Project partners include councils, business improvement districts, horticultural and arts organisations, hospitals, colleges and transport organistaions.

 

For info on projects and collaborations, please get in contact.