Service offer
Human activity is profoundly influenced by the planning and design of the built environment. This influence can be understood in its nature, measured in its degree and shaped through planning and design interventions.
The Space Syntax approach to planning and design has been proven in commercial practice for over 20 years. Supported by research foundations at University College London and other world-leading academic institutions, the approach adds value through a unique service offer:
Creating places
We offer consultancy advice, providing strategic planning and design of urban and building projects. We specialise in the production of strategic design concepts for buildings and urban areas. We have a track record in the development of visionary ideas that promote social and economic wealth-creation. We assemble and lead multi-disciplinary consultant teams and we also provide expert advice to other lead designers.
We provide a design review service to make strategic inputs into urban and building projects.
Shaping knowledge
We develop advanced, evidence-based technologies to forecast the effects of planning and design decisions on social, economic and environmental outcomes in a number of knowledge domains, including social cohesion, crime & security and workplace innovation.
We undertake research to continuously develop the technology that forms the foundations of our approach.
We create publications of our work and the work of others to help disseminate information regarding our evidence-based approach to planning and design.
Informing practice
We provide training to people in the use of these technologies through professional and academic training courses as well as our popular internship programme.
We create software licensing arrangements with public and private sector organisations to apply the technologies in practice.
We engage in planning and design
policy development at a national and local scale to promote objectives that are sympathetic with our approach.
In whichever role we take, we put a care for the social and economic performance of places at the heart of the planning and design process.