What is integrated urbanism?
The process of combining environmental, social, cultural, and economic components to produce sustainable, high-quality settings is referred to as "integrated urbanism." The unit is a specialist urbanism group inside the worldwide Arup company, bringing together several disciplines. We work on large-scale projects, ranging from city centers to whole cities. Integrated urbanism requires input from many disciplines including architecture, civil engineering, landscape architecture, planning, sociology, and transportation science. It also involves understanding how people interact with their environment by considering how they use space and how this affects design. Designing for integration requires thinking about how different elements affect each other and finding ways to minimize negative impacts while maximizing positive outcomes. Examples of integrated projects we have worked on include Chicago's Lakeshore East and West waterfront neighborhoods, Singapore's Downtown Area Renewal Program (DARP) project, and Helsinki's Central Park development project. Our approach to integrating design features is based on three main principles: unity, diversity, and sustainability. Unity refers to the need for buildings and streets to work together as one aesthetic entity; diversity means incorporating different types of uses into the same area to give it variety; and sustainability concerns itself with creating communities that are good for people and the planet over time. As part of our commitment to sustainable design, the Arup team has been involved in green building research and innovation since 1990.