Where we live plays a significant role in our overall health and well-being. Thoughtful attention to how we design our urban environments and the places we live and work is critical to creating safe, equitable & resilient futures for everyone. We work with multidisciplinary design & planning teams to integrate science with community planning & design.

The ecological systems that our urban environments depend on are often overlooked and under resourced. But proper attention to ecological infrastructure can have significant positive economic and health impacts on individuals, communities and entire regions. We work with neighborhoods, cities and agencies to help communicate, map and design ecological infrastructure to create more resilient cities and regions.

Efforts made at the local and community scale often have outsize impacts to the work invested. Meeting neighbors, helping others, building community — all play a huge role in creating sense of place and shaping cities. As part of our planning and design efforts, we work with communities to create pop-up events, help design streetscape amenities to slow traffic and support safer bike & pedestrian traffic.

One of the core missions of Catamount Studio from the beginning has been to support efforts to reduce the impacts of climate change and to build a more resilient future. This is built into all that we do as a practice, but we also provide expertise and tools that specifically look at solving issues of energy and climate, water use and waste reduction, local food production, social equity and ecosystem services.