Meck’s Mission
Building the future cites we need
Meck delivers creative outcomes with purpose. With climate change, affordability and inequality becoming increasing threats, successfully shaping sustainable cities and getting projects built is more important than ever. We cultivate our mission through a renewed focus on culture, community and partnership.
Mission 1
Build cities for connecting with others
A central cause in whether our cities are healthy places to live is neither the height of buildings nor the number of residents. What’s important is if the city helps us connect with other people or leaves us feeling isolated.
Mission 2
Create meaning in the places around us
A well designed city can have positive impacts on ideas of citizenship, place attachment and our own sense of meaning.
Mission 3
Increase supply and quality of new housing
A transition to a more affordable, just and beautiful urbanism is ongoing. We must get projects built quicker, and such a transition should be guided by justice and beauty.
Mission 4
Design for walkable, local neighbourhoods
Walkable communities provide immense social, health, environmental and financial benefits that almost everyone can claim, especially the most vulnerable among us.
Mission 5
Utilise local craft & knowledge
Relying on local skill and craft throughout the processes of planning, design and building leads to uniquely reimagined spaces that locals can be proud of.
The Global Goals
Meck’s mission is aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the New Urban Agenda. Meck is actively collaborating with UN-Habitat to implement SDGs in urban projects across the world.
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