Cities

Making the most of urban infrastructure investment requires cities and consultants to work together to break down silos between bureaucracies and budgets, and to consider in parallel the impacts a program or project will have on people, the planet, and profit. Engblom has decades of experience consulting with cities and large-scale private sector entities in the Architecture, Engineering, and Real Estate world.

San Francisco
Model Places: This study looks at how a trillion-dollar infrastructure program can accommodate 2 Million more inhabitants by 2050 while addressing the threats of sea level rise, severe storms, drought, flooding and earthquakes, as well as issues of affordability and inequity.

Model Places

Los Angeles
LA River Gateway, Los Angeles, California. Integrated vision of how to restore the LA rive as a 21-century symbol of Los Angeles as a global city while modernizing regional and local transportation and water infrastructure.

New York
Southwest Brooklyn Red Hook Regeneration Framework – Developed an integrated infrastructure and land use plan for one of the world’s most underutilized waterfronts.

Southwest Brooklyn

Chicago
Chicago Green Infrastructure, HUD Community Redevelopment Grant - positioned the city to apply for a US $200M grant by facilitating a multi-agency approach to governance and funding for this city-wide program. Developed an innovative approach to integrating design guidelines and engineering constraints analysis for the Chicago River South Branch.

Sydney
Sydney Manifesto: How Sydney can grow to more resilient as it grows to a city of 8 Million. By simultaneously considering major transportation corridors and Value Capture from Private Real Estate, along with environmental and Equity concerns, a high level guiding principles document was developed

Sydney Manifesto

Sao Paulo
Historic Urban regeneration strategy for the Nova Luz District of Sao Paulo now being which has now become a model for sustainable regeneration strategy in Latin America.