Practice
Most urban consultants own one or two of these. CitiesPractice deliberately stands on three — because programs that ignore any one of them tend not to ship.
Urban Development
Helping cities decide what to build, where, and for whom — and turning those decisions into investment-grade plans.
- Green City Action Plans
- Transit-Oriented Development
- Land-Based Fiscal Tools
- Comprehensive Mobility Plans
Urban Infrastructure
End-to-end advisory across the lifecycle — feasibility through transaction close to post-signing contract management.
- Solid Waste Management
- Urban Transport & e-Mobility
- Sanitation, Water & Wastewater
- PPP Transaction Advisory
Urban Finance
Working alongside ministries of finance, treasuries and city CFOs to make urban services financially sustainable.
- Capital Investment Plans
- Tariff & Cost-Recovery Design
- Climate Budgeting
- Willingness-to-Pay Studies
How an engagement runs.
Discovery
A short diagnostic phase to pressure-test the brief against technical, financial and political constraints before any plan gets drafted.
Design
Options are built and stress-tested across all three pillars together — not handed off sequentially between specialists who never compare notes.
Delivery
Named-expert support through approval, procurement and implementation — the phase where most plans quietly stall without it.