Timothy Smith

Tim is a Principal and founder of the Urban Design and Planning Studio at SERA. He is passionate about the art and science of placemaking and his work is aimed at creating whole, beautiful, and equitable communities that enrich the human experience and integrate nature and humans at the aesthetic and systemic levels. His work spans a variety of scales, from the site, block and neighborhood to the campus, city, and region.

Tim developed Civic Ecology, a stakeholder-driven, whole systems public engagement framework and has helped implement the framework in numerous communities. He co-authored Making EcoDistricts: Concepts and Methods for Advancing Sustainability in Neighborhoods, Urban Design Next: A Conceptual Framework for the Open City, delivered a TEDx talk on Civic Ecology and lectures widely on the topic.

He has served on the Portland Planning Commission and has advised numerous cities and institutions on sustainable community design including Google, the City of San Francisco, Stanford University, the Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council, and the City of Portland.