SERVICES

Turning Strategy Into Action.

Working with you through the research, scoping, engagement, design and delivery phases of your projects, we focus on operationalising the advice we prepare, so that strategy turns into action

Research + Engagement

People know their places best. We help you to capture their knowledge and analyse the data to create a strong evidence base for your decision making. This involves:

Research engagement
  • Project Visioning 
  • Tangata Whenua Engagement
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Market Engagement
  • Community Engagement
  • Facilitation
  • Housing Needs Assessments
  • Stakeholder Needs Assessments
  • Supply and Demand Analysis
  • Market Research
  • Social Impact Assessments and Monitoring
  • Integrated Impact Assessments
  • Observation and Sentiment Surveys
  • Pre- and Post-Occupancy Surveys
  • Economic and Demographic Analysis
  • Trend Mapping and Modelling
  • Network and Needs Analysis
  • Neighbourhood and Town Centre Amenity Assessments
  • Literature and Policy Reviews
  • Peer Reviews
Strategy + Design 

Let’s work together to develop place-specific strategy and thoughtful design solutions, using:

Strategy Design
  • Public Value Strategy 
  • Business Case Development 
  • Investment Logic Mapping [Ilm]
  • Development Potential Reports
  • Outcomes, Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks
  • Place Delivery Strategy
  • Housing Strategy 
  • Tenure Strategies and Assessments
  • Urban Regeneration and Neighbourhood Strategy 
  • Property Strategy
  • Iwi-led Development Strategy
  • Values-Based Decision-Making Frameworks
  • Community Wealth Building Strategy
  • Community Facilities and Social Infrastructure Strategy and Planning
  • Wellbeing Assessment for Buildings and Neighbourhoods [WELL AP certified]
  • Spatial Planning
  • Urban Design and Review
  • Plan Changes
  • Benchmark Design Regimes
  • Master Planning, Bulk & Location and Option Studies
  • Best Use Assessments
  • Feasibility Analysis
Delivery + Activation

Action-oriented, we bring together project partners to make sure you have the best foundations for success through:

Delivery and activation
  • Urban Regeneration Programme Design and Delivery
  • Housing Action Plans and Delivery Roadmaps
  • Strategic Property Advice
  • Governance and Complex Project Structuring
  • Brief Development
  • Tender Design
  • Project Establishment Advice
  • Commercial Transaction and Funding Pathways Advice
  • Project Implementation Plans
  • Project Planning 
  • Due Diligence
  • Partnership Brokering 
  • Implementation of Affordable Housing Models
  • Technical and Strategic Communications
  • Placemaking Programmes
  • Community Development Processes
  • Co-Design Processes
  • Tactical Urbanism Projects

Outcomes you can expect when working with The Urban Advisory

You will benefit throughout the entire urban development experience due to The Urban Advisory’s dedicated urban strategy expertise and support  ̶  from ideas to implementation and delivery. Hands-on, we work with you to turn concepts into strategies and strategies into action.

Fresh thinking

provided by our team’s diverse expertise in engagement, project planning, systems thinking and co-design, research, architecture, urban design, infrastructure, planning, economics and commercial advisory.

fresh thinking

Clear direction

Provided through the primary research we undertake locally and internationally. We share our insights and knowledge at events, conferences, and through a variety of publications, and work with you as a ‘critical friend’ to assist on projects that need to regain a clear direction.

Balanced perspectives

Provided through understanding the views of residents, the private and public sector and how to bring these together so that each can benefit from and leverage the value of the other.

Understand the big picture and deliver on the details

provided through the breadth and depth of industry knowledge and technical experience we provide.

Creative communications

Provided through the way we communicate using a suite of creative tools to help effectively deliver projects in challenging environments.

National presence at all scales

Provided by a nimble team hroughout New Zealand who have extensive experience working on a range of projects, big and small.

fresh thinking

Fresh thinking

provided by our team’s diverse expertise in engagement, project planning, systems thinking and co-design, research, architecture, urban design, infrastructure, planning, economics and commercial advisory.

Clear direction

Provided through the primary research we undertake locally and internationally. We share our insights and knowledge at events, conferences, and through a variety of publications, and work with you as a ‘critical friend’ to assist on projects that need to regain a clear direction.

Balanced perspectives

Provided through understanding the views of residents, the private and public sector and how to bring these together so that each can benefit from and leverage the value of the other.

Understand the big picture and deliver on the details

provided through the breadth and depth of industry knowledge and technical experience we provide.

Creative communications

Provided through the way we communicate using a suite of creative tools to help effectively deliver projects in challenging environments.

National presence at all scales

Provided by a nimble team hroughout New Zealand who have extensive experience working on a range of projects, big and small.

Sectors

Collaborating across sectors to deliver purposeful projects that are responsive to the needs of people and places, ensuring that the right things get built in the right places to preserve and enhance our neighbourhoods, towns and cities. We want to be a part of your story.

Community
Property
Iwi
Government
Community
Property
Iwi
Government