Urban Paradigm

Frameworks for how a city grows.

The Urban Paradigm stream asks the larger questions before the drawing begins. How should a city price its shade, route its water, measure its heat? We produce atlases, frameworks and planning grammars — documents meant to be argued with, adopted and amended in public.

Projects · 03

Multi-city · Cartography

Lake Network Atlas

Mapping a city's forgotten water bodies as one connected system. The atlas is a cartographic argument: lakes treated not as leftover land but as the city's oldest infrastructure.

Framework · Adoptable

Streets for Shade

A street design framework that treats shade as a public utility — canopy, section and time-of-day as planning instruments, with standards a municipality can actually write into code.

Ward-level study

Urban Heat Atlas

A ward-by-ward reading of urban heat, pairing thermal field data with the everyday routes people take through summer — so that heat policy begins from lived streets, not satellite abstraction.