Eric Turcotte, partner at Urban Strategies, is an Urban Designer, Architect, and Planner with over 20 years of experience in Canada, the United States and Europe. His areas of expertise include downtown revitalization plans, redevelopment of inner city neighbourhoods, large scale institutional and corporate master plans and urban design guidelines.

Eric’s approach to planning emphasizes the importance of urban design and the balance between built form and open space in creating rich, healthy and sustainable environments. Eric’s many successful projects are testimony to his innovative approach and demonstrate his concern for a sensitive integration into their surroundings. Many of the projects on which Eric has acted as the design lead have been honoured with awards for their overall quality including the University of Ottawa Campus Master Plan, the City of Ottawa’s Downtown Urban Design Strategy 20/20, the Etobicoke Centre Public Space and Streetscape Plan, and the Master Plan for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health’s (CAMH) in Toronto

Eric is a founding member of the Council for Canadian Urbanism (CanU) and regularly lectures  on urban design, architecture and planning issues.