About Us

Based in the New York City Metropolitan Area, Local Form Studio is a planning and urban design practice that provides visioning and development master planning services to guide context-driven, sustainable urban growth for cities, districts, neighborhoods, and corridors. We specialize in planning for active mobility and improving connections between urban communities and their transportation network. We provide our clients with globally informed and locally relevant urban development solutions that address increasing growth pressures and transportation infrastructure needs.

Our passion is helping clients tell their unique story and unlocking their project’s full potential. Whether you are a land developer looking for predevelopment master planning and urban design services or a public agency preparing a neighborhood framework plan, Local Form Studio can help you define your vision, align it with local stakeholder and community values, and navigate the local political landscape to successfully guide your investment, add value, and implement your project. 

With nearly two decades of experience in planning and urban design consulting across the United States, we are experts in predevelopment vision setting, land use entitlements, peer review, master planning, site yield analysis, transit-oriented development (TOD) planning, multimodal mobility planning, and zoning. We work on projects from early visioning stages through conceptual and schematic design phases for a range of project types and scales, and keenly understand the implementation tools necessary to realize your vision.