COMMITTED AND INTELLIGENT MASTER PLANNING
BEST USE OF LAND
These studies are an investigation of the possible roles of an area, the definition of criteria for appropriate change and an exploration of options for best use and maybe intensification for the future.
Alternative scenarios are presented and explored with stakeholders, leading to a brief for development, possibly suggestions for policy alterations and a delivery programme. Potential partners and investors are sometimes explored.
Clients are public agencies and landowners.
URBAN Silence’s remarkable experience in master planning made possible to achieve a great harmony between dynamic and flexible opportunities for development, while safeguarding the heritage and addressing with sensitivity the public green spaces. The adopted Area Scheme is widely considered a very positive guidance for the city.
Agni Petridou, Conservation Architect and Planner,
on behalf of the Municipality of Nicosia
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