About us

Urbanica - over 10 years of dedicated work

Urbanica was founded in 2009 by a team of young urban professionals. In this case «Team» is not just a word, but a very essense of the company. Main part of the team works together for 12-14 years, starting in biggest urban/spatial planning institutions and continuing the teamwork for over 10 years in Urbanica.

What we do is a synthesis of economics and urban planning. We’re open for new concepts, but are also based firmly on classical urban planning practice. For us, urbanism is not a trend, but a passion and systematic professional work.

During more than 10 years of practice, we’ve completed more than 250 projects nationwide and beyond, with 50% of clients being government-based and 50% – private companies and corporations. We make spatial plans, rules and regulations, comprehensive plans, master plans, spatial development concepts, urban planning concepts, and a number of other types of projects.

 

We are a small private company, although up to 30% of our time we try to spend on our own non-commercial and public projects, which help us gain experience that we want ourselves. We’re advocating for a comprehensive approach to every project, even if our client wants this project done only on one particular scale.

We were one of two russian urban planning practices, included in a team for development of Moscow metropolitan area in 2012, organized by Moscow administration. Also, Urbanica was a member of a winning consortium on a competition for Sokolniki park vision in 2014. Our team proposal along with Wowhaus and Groundlab was published by ArchDaily.