Urban Design

Urban design is the process and outcome of the creation of quality and functional places within the human environment, the places between the built form that unites the living environment, creating the essential social and environmental connections. The quality of these places, therefore, has significant impacts on how people live, work and recreate; their social, physical and mental well-being and the resultant evolving communities are dependent on good urban places.

In creating “Places for People,” SCI does not take a one-size-fits-all approach. The designs are based on broad principles that take into account the unique characteristics of a location, people’s enjoyment, experience and health, and encourage excellence and collaboration in the design process. To quote Jan Gehl, “’First life, then spaces, then buildings: the other way around never works.” The importance and value of good urban design cannot be overlooked.

Quality urban design is even more important in the dense and expanding Asian cities where the bulk of SCI’s projects are, cities with growing and changing populations and socio economic characteristics. SCI is about creating places for people and ultimately the creation of productive, sustainable, liveable ad healthy communities. SCI sees the success of its urban design projects as places that are walkable, safe, vibrant, connected, diverse and enduring where the community connects and ultimately becomes the custodian of the places created.