![]() Working collaboratively on multi-disciplinary efforts, Wil is most interested in the power of landscape in addressing complex social, economic, and environmental issues through powerful narratives interventions that weave architecture and landscape as one. Will Viitanen is a landscape architect at Livable Cities Studio with extensive experience leading and designing unique projects in a variety of sectors, from civic and university campuses to public gardens. In addition, Todd has been a regular studio instructor and critic at the University of Colorado Denver, a studio critic at the University of Texas, Auburn University and a Career Discovery instructor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Most recently, in his role as Deputy Director of Denver Mayor Hancock’s North Denver Cornerstone Collaborative (NDCC), Todd directed and oversaw a portfolio of planning initiatives and capital projects totaling over $100 million in public investment of multi-modal infrastructure, parks, and waterfronts. He specializes in complicated urban design and planning projects focused on redevelopment, mobility, public space design, community outreach and city building. Throughout his career, he has been responsible for leading numerous multi-disciplinary teams, establishing long-range visions and guiding them through strategic implementation with an emphasis on the role of public open-space as a way to stimulate growth and create socially active spaces. ![]() Todd is an Urban Designer and Principal at Livable Cities Studio and has over 20 years of planning and redevelopment experience in both the public and private sectors. We are a certified WBE, DBE, EBE and SBE in the City and County of Denver. This contemporary approach to infrastructure suggests that all forms of infrastructure are mutually beneficial by providing critical services and capacity while also creating new amenities and forms of public space that considers all aspects of the environment and broader community. To address the needs of rapid urbanization, growth and transformation of cities, our work reconsiders the traditional role of infrastructure by emphasizing people, natural systems and new forms of public space that benefit from the investment and need for infrastructure. Our process starts with design collaboration, creative partnerships and a desire to bring diverse people together in intense collaborations to provide the springboard for unforeseen futures and solutions, resulting in ongoing innovation, refinement and reapplication. We see the future of cities being built on collaborative partnerships that fit the specific needs of each city, neighborhood and community. We aim to create livable cities that unite people through public spaces that are designed for inclusion, social purpose and emphasize human experience. We focus on city building and addressing the complex needs of urbanization and change in our cities. The studio is based on the idea of creating places for people and human experience. Livable Cities Studio is an urban design and landscape architecture studio focused on addressing the needs of the contemporary city by uniting people through public spaces and connections to the natural environment.
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