As an urban designer and planner, Ute approaches her work with the understanding that design can be a powerful tool for creating healthy places and communities while being aware of the complexities of urban spaces and the potential of infrastructure to transform the vitality of a place. Integral to all her management and design work is her commitment to the integration of social, economic, and environmentally sustainable practices from the early stages of the process.  With more than 22 years of practice, Ute’s experience working for public and private clients in Canada, the United States, Russia and China includes municipal lead secondary and tertiary plans as well as site, master and community planning developments ranging in size from 4 to 4,000 hectares.

Ute is a member of the Ontario Professional Planners Institute and the Canadian Institute of Planners. Ute is the President of the Council for Canadian Urbanism, a member of the City of Vaughan Design Review Panel, a member of the Province of Ontario provincially appointed AODA Design of Public Spaces Standards Development committee, a board member of Toronto’s Design Industry Advisory Committee, a member of the PISG group at OPPI and the past chair of the Women’s Leadership Initiative Allies in Action sub-committee at the Urban Land Institute.