Investing in and leveraging landscape to promote community, recreation, and to establish a visual identity that is rooted in the land and ecology of the region
Planning & Urban Design
Our planners and urban designers are innovative agents of change, committed to improving the human condition. Through meaningful collaboration, we advocate for community and client needs to advance design excellence, sustainability, and resilience. Our rigorous approach is structured by systems-thinking and supported by innovative tools and engagement strategies to empower decision-making that is mission-driven, data-informed, agile, and inclusive.
Defining a bold, long-term vision for full campus build-out with a development plan for the next decade
Sasaki is excited to be working with the University of Kentucky (UK) on a pioneering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Framework Plan
The American Planning Association’s Colorado Chapter celebrates DEN strategic plan for innovative vision
A year-long public engagement process informed the draft
A new tool allows planners and designers to reduce embodied carbon from the early stages of planning
A visionary roadmap to guide a historic capital city emerging from decades of conflict towards a model of sustainable, equitable, and resilient development, tackling physical and social dimensions head-on
Sasaki led the urban design alongside a team of architects from Gensler and landscape architects from SWA
As context and constraints evolve in a university setting, it’s important to have a structural understanding of how decisions will be made
A master plan that re-casts 7.7 million square feet of development, creating a diverse, mixed-use environment with pedestrian space and connectivity to Boston's thriving Seaport
Revitalizing one of the last undeveloped sites along the Willamette River to return it to Portland's public
Fully embracing the surrounding landscape and development potential of DEN as the biggest economic driver in Colorado
Creating cultural hotspots to foster connectivity and encourage urban diversity
“Planning the Future of the Past”—a master plan for a historic campus and buildings
Large mixed-use project moves forward as momentum builds in SE Austin
Pieprz and Schlapobersky write on designing Smart Cities for longevity
A bold and holistic vision for Afghanistan’s urban future, grounded in a strategic and implementable framework of catalytic projects and policies
Competing to design an Olympic-scale sports stadium and district yields an unexpected architectural and urban design vision
A vision that builds upon one of Sasaki’s legacy plans and supports the campus for long-term growth
An award-winning comprehensive strategy to guide the city of Boston towards a more resilient future
“University cities”—as planned university campuses are typically known in Latin America—are undergoing a massive shift and this university is at the leading edge
Sasaki’s urban design strategy centers on the concept of “push, pull, bridge, and extend” to re-stitch the city fabric on either side of Suzhou Creek
Proving the power of Latin American universities to be engines of innovation and entrepreneurship through partnership with industry and R&D communities
Designing for the next generation of designers: planning and implementing a new design school campus in India