Ecosystems are more than just nature. They are the places where people and nature interact. These are the parks and open spaces that bring us together, the spaces where we work and play, and the places that we call home. Each place includes natural histories and cultural memories that are woven together through time, connected by neighbors, seasons, soil, and water. Each place is a landscape.  Each place is an urban ecosystem.

Urban Ecosystems Inc. is a critical design practice of landscape architects, planners, and designers focused exclusively on enriching the vibrance of these urban ecosystems.  We are curious about different types of communities and landscape settings. This provides an opportunity to work among a wide range of landscape scales and with a variety of communities and project types. Consistent throughout these projects is our belief that each landscape deserves its own story.  In response, our approach is grounded in listening with rigor to discover, reveal, and interpret the latent characteristics of the landscape through space, material, and detail.

We are committed to providing each project with the attention and effort it deserves. Therefore, we believe each new project is an opportunity to build a long-term partnership. To do so, we challenge typical practice conventions and resist the prevalent one-size-fits-all approach of traditional landscape architectural practice. Rather, our passion and creativity allows us to ask different questions and tailor our method and deliverables to the nuances of each client. This helps to ensure that the results are respectful of each unique context, are well-crafted, and collectively enrich life. In doing so, we create living landscapes that seamlessly integrate spaces, materials, and communities with vibrant experiences that shape the future landscape of urban ecosystems.