Urban design & placemaking

Our people

Joel Hawthorn

Joel has 11 years experience in transport planning and engineering as a project manager and designer of schemes from inception through to delivery with a focus on active travel infrastructure.

News

Steer, sharing our vision for the future of transport with the world

Our Steer colleagues have spoken on panels from Colombia to the UK, with their perspectives firmly focused on the future of transport.

Insights

Can our understanding of cities and ability to reimagine the built environment provide for a better quality of life?

Being overweight or developing obesity is an all-too-common condition that often sneaks up on many of us.

Insights

Finding trends with maps

It's great to have data for a particular snapshot of time, but what makes things even more interesting is to compare.

Insights

How did a map made at Steer end up in this book?

Well, when we started the #30DayMapChallenge on Twitter last year (2021), we never expected to get 56k+ views and 17k+ visits.

Insights

In Suburbia: cost of living will hit the 80%

There has always been a significant focus on the needs of our larger and more densely populated cities.

Our people

Mayra López

Mayra is an architect and urban planner with over 7 years of experience in the formulation of strategies to improve public spaces, create urban commons and incentivize sustainable mobility.

Projects

Using Design Thinking to solve design challenges in LATAM during the pandemic

Our LATAM team has supported the change of focus and direction for many projects due to COVID-induced restrictions. Using the foundations of Design Thinking, we have developed user-centred solutions that adjust to the new challenges of operating in virtual contexts.

Projects

Developing the Global Infrastructure Program in Mexico, Peru and Colombia

The Global Infrastructure Program (GIP), which aims to support economic development through better planning, preparation and execution of sustainable infrastructure projects began implementation in April 2019.

Our people

Liza Rios Berrios

Liza has eight years' experience as a transportation consultant, developing her skills in several disciplines of transportation. Her main area of expertise is modelling, both micro and macro-simulation.

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