Soft, Hard, Natural, Made,
Seen, Felt and Perceived.
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 landscapes create jobs, clean air, manage water, grow habitats, are beautiful, inspire, feel good, and set new social growth in motion. These landscapes are streets and plazas, parks and natural corridors, patches of green that gather carbon and grow food in the ground, on a rooftop, or in between other things like streets and buildings.
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.
