Great Places, For Life

We imagine happier, healthier places, then create them.

Wherever you are right now, look around and ask yourself – What is this place for?

You might say, it’s for working, or playing, or travelling, or shopping, or for taking it easy at the end of the day.

That all sounds marvellous.

But look around you and imagine – what if this place had the power to make you healthier? Even happier?

Well, it does. Because where you live can be as important to your wellbeing as how you live.

It’s not just a theory. We know how to a turn a blueprint into a prescription for health. We plan places with more walkable streets and greater paths to success. Communities that encourage social butterﬂies and actual butterﬂies. Walkable communities for people of all walks of life. Places that will be here for a good time, and a long time. Places where opportunity doesn’t just knock, it moves in next door.

If you want to lead an industry, you have to push it. We lead by creating places made for health.
And for happiness.
In other words, for life.

6 focus areas for planning healthy places

Resiliency and Access

We plan places that will be here for a good time, and a long time.

Social Belonging and Inclusiveness

We plan walkable communities for people of all walks of life.

Planetary Health and Biodiversity

Less concrete, more jungle.

Economic and Cultural Prosperity

We plan communities where opportunity doesn’t just knock, it moves in next door.

Active, Connected Communities

Our transportation planners also know how to genuinely move people.

Health Creation Leadership

The best way to lead an industry is to push it.

Discover our healthy places insights

Future Ready Kerbside: Creating Places That Put People First

This new white paper examines what we need to do today to ensure our kerbsides enable the places people want now and into the future.

New Research into Pandemic Loneliness Sheds Light on the Vulnerable

WSP and The Helen Clark Foundation have released an update to the ground-breaking 2020 report Alone Together that looked at the impact of loneliness on the people and communities of Aotearoa (New Zealand).

People Not Cars at the Heart of Communities

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Herbal Remedy: Making Space For Nature In Cities

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Rethinking Urban Planning in a Post COVID World

Is COVID-19 pushing urban planners to think aloud about redesigning more resilient cities?

Embracing Indigenous Cultures to Address Infrastructure Needs

Douglas Yahn, Indigenous Relations Lead, explores how perspectives from Indigenous peoples can enhance infrastructure projects and the communities they support.