Sustainable Development

Beginning with the professional training of its principal, Seth Harry and Associates, Inc., has considered the larger implications of place form on the built environment, and its broader impacts on the larger environment, consistently making sustainability a fundamental component in everything we do.

To that end, we have been a leading proponent of “Green Design” and sustainable development in our own practice and in our professional relationships.  Our work includes comprehensive regional land-use and transportation planning using a broad spectrum of recognized performance criteria to reduce VMT through locational efficiencies, enhancing both air and water quality and minimizing resource depletion.  Our work also looks at the spatial implications of urban form on consumer markets and the local production of essential goods and services. 

We have published documents on Climatic influences in architecture and urban form, written several papers on retail and the Transect, and authored a book section on the subject of sustainable commerce.See ProjectsBack to Main Menu