Urban Design for Climate Change

Designing an entire urban development that has passive solar hot water, active solar panels, charging stations for electric cars with acreage where there is food growing, edible landscaping with food forest on the edges, is where our designs make big impacts.

We will work with developers on what a neighborhood looks like designing from scratch in the climate change era. What do we want there? We want food and we want fun. We want things for kids, for elders, we want to have a big kitchen where we can process the food that we grow, we want to not have to go to the grocery store. We don’t want all that packaging. What does that design look like? There are a few examples, but not very many and we’d like to change that equation.

We have ideas to keep those neighborhoods affordable and profitable by designing them as community land trusts. Yes, you would be able to sell your house for a profit, but you wouldn’t be able to sell it at the market value. The goal is to prevent these neighborhoods suddenly becoming only neighborhoods for millionaires after starting out as affordable housing.