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Tools for community-led recovery - Neighborhoods Now
Description: Civitas is an urban design and landscape architecture firm that shapes cities for the better — seamlessly blending nature with city life.
Our medium is landscape. An urban landscape that is soft, hard, natural, made, seen, felt and perceived. City landscapes, both natural and made places, need to engage people, satisfy and be higher performance than landscapes we made in the past. New urban landscapes have a new burden – to heal scars, reclaim lost places, connect old and new systems, create cultural and economic value, attract people, activate neighborhoods and connect people to each other and the place they call home. We believe that new la
A mosaic of landscape places and systems means a lot and does a lot. Civitas exists to make these places. Places that make a city, a civitas.
In recent years, Civitas has transformed abandoned brownfield, featureless greenfield – even a decrepit shopping mall – into vibrant mixed-use neighborhoods; reimagined blighted riverfront as a community centerpiece driving economic growth; envisioned the true face of the American museum 100 years in the future; and even conjured plans for a full-blown culturally anchored city out of an Afghan desert. With projects dotting the globe, Civitas carries an enormous range of experience, ability and project diver
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Tools for community-led recovery - Neighborhoods Now