Publica helps clients understand how places work. We produce public realm surveys and strategies and provide detailed design advice on the integration of new development. We help to establish vision within strategic masterplans and urban planning; agree regeneration objectives; and set a well informed and carefully considered brief – all with the aim of addressing change in places as a positive and inclusive process. Clients also use us to select the design team, support the policy and business case and manage and coordinate design development. Our work helps people think in new ways about processes of change and the possibilities they open up. We build up area portraits through detailed interviews, discussions, research and mapping. From this we produce an evidence-base and principles for change.