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With today’s environmental challenges, the design and planning context is rapidly evolving, increasingly integrated and complex. To help meet these challenges, we provide our clients with more than 20 years of international expertise and leadership in sustainable planning and design. These services include architecture, integrated urban design and planning, and sustainable policy guidelines. Our approach to project visioning, green buildings, public space design and master planning capitalizes on integrated systems to enhance desired outcomes across multiple scales while shrinking the ecological footprint of our buildings and urban districts. Our leadership in this evolving field is drawn from practical project experience and contribution to shaping policy on sustainable planning and design. Jeffrey Raven, FAIA, LEED BD+C is principal of the firm. He is a specialist in sustainable and resilient urban design whose research is applied in professional practice and disseminated throughout the profession, government and allied disciplines. As Director of the Graduate Program in Urban and Regional Design at New York Institute of Technology, he has shaped the program to engage the fluid, interdisciplinary and global urban design profession that is practiced in the 21st century. His professional practice focuses on US-international urban design projects and knowledge transfer. Projects in the Arabian Gulf, India, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and the United States include low-carbon communities, green buildings, and smart growth. Jeffrey contributes to the development of US and international sustainable-resilient guidelines-metrics, including STAR Communities, the Global EcoDistrict Protocol, McKinsey’s Green Districts and Urban Land Institute Technical Assistance Panel. His work expands on the traditional influence and capabilities of architect-urbanists by bridging climate science, policy and design practice.