Our multi-disciplinary team works across New Zealand to deliver healthier and more equitable housing, neighbourhoods, towns and cities. We take an outcomes-focused approach, bringing a fresh perspective to the design and property industry. We are creative thinkers and passionate action takers who love hard challenges, unfamiliar problems and working together to develop tailored solutions.
These principles guide us to deliver fresh thinking and evidence-based solutions.
We are relationship-led, believing in putting people and places first. In everything that we do, we consider the wellbeing of the people who engage with the places we create and the impacts on the place itself.
Caring deeply about the impact of our work, we respectfully look to the past, and work genuinely with iwi and hapū and all stakeholders, to understand the social, cultural, political, and environmental contexts of your project.
Sustainable development is complex and requires strong guiding values. Thoughtfulness, reciprocity, and bravery guide the way that we work. This approach helps us to consider the longer-term impacts of our decisions, learn from each other and have the bold conversations that initiate change.
Supporting the outcomes you seek.
We support your aspirations - this is the essence of our process. Joining you on your journey is our mindset at the outset, building on your strengths, sharing our knowledge and tools, learning from you, becoming your trusted advisors and finding solutions together.
As a multidisciplinary team with skills as diverse as our services, we are problem solvers who thrive on the challenge of helping you to deliver your projects.
We have expertise in engagement, project planning, systems thinking and co-design, research, anthropology, architecture, urban design, planning, economics and commercial advisory.
The Urban Advisory has a strong network of collaborators who add depth to the work that we do. This includes in te ao Māori, to engage Māori appropriately throughout the life of a project.
Being connected across the built environment industry helps to keep our diverse perspectives fresh.
We are recognised as leaders in our field and have been appointed to the following Panels and Preferred Supplier Lists.
We are recognised as a values-driven company, doing our best to be good citizens.
Always learning, we’d like to share our insights with you. We’ve developed a Research Hub to keep our live research projects, research reports and articles all in one easy place.