Design Research: Cities is a consultancy dedicated to serving client projects and cities as regenerative complexes. We produce urban strategies that range in scale from the position and architecture of cities, to their web of connective systems, spaces, and individual components. We project plans for new cities,* as well as the disinvested areas of existing places. Developing the latent value of under appreciated topographies, cultural histories, connections and resources, we assist cities transform and build their economies. Our strategic designs respond creatively to local demands in dialogue with investors, administrators and users. These initiatives can serve as pivots for neighbourhoods and cities. In the context of accelerating global competition between city regions, our designs help communities to thrive and project what is produced in such places: local knowledge, culture, ideas and goods, which connect those communities to the wider world, and attract the world to them.

Design Research: Cities is a new collaborative that undertakes projects in the UK, Europe and the Arab world. Representative work displayed on these pages, led and produced by us independently or within the frame of other organisations is context driven and shaped from the inherent nature of sites — as well as the dynamism and demands specific to particular communities. This foundational approach promotes wellbeing and the health of the city. It generates high-performing and inspiring places that help form the environment of cities. Our project narratives communicate the object of our design—namely, to stimulate social interactivity as well as economic and social vitality. We work in collaboration with engineers and surveyors, as well as archaeologists, industrial historians, demographers and economists. Our work is commissioned by land and community investors, including national, regional and city authorities, construction companies and culture agencies. *(currently shortlisted by the Egyptian Government to lead the vision for the Mediterranean North Coast Region Plan for 34 million people)