Landscape Architecture
Streetscape and Hardscape Design
Irrigation Design
Park and Recreation Design
Greenway and Trail Design
Arborist Services

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

The American Society of Landscape Architects defines landscape architects as analyzing, planning, designing, managing, and nurturing the built and natural environments. CMA’s Landscape Architecture and Planning studio focuses on developing vibrant public spaces to provide improved quality of life. Great public spaces play vital roles in a community’s resilience. Public spaces comprise the network of streets, plazas, parks, and places in our communities that form the public realm. These are the places where we spend time with friends, commute to work or school, exercise, play, form our social bonds, and live our public lives. CMA commits to designing public spaces contributing to a community’s health and well-being; equity and inclusion; economic development; and sustainability and resilience. Our studio works with all levels of government, institutions, and private developers to create quality outdoor experiences for end users. Our expertise includes the following services:

Planting Design
Hardscape Design
Urban Design
Master Planning (Parks, Planting and Irrigation)
Community Planning
Irrigation Design
Park Design
Greenway & Trails Design
Pedestrian & Bicycle Pathway Design
Government Permitting
Site Planning and Rezoning
GIS Analysis and Mapping
Sustainable Design and LEED Solutions
Project and Program Management
Habitat Restoration
Wayfinding
Public Outreach
Opinions of Probable Cost

“Landscape architects analyze, plan, design, manage, and nurture the built and natural environments.”

The American Society of Landscape Architects defines landscape architects as analyzing, planning, designing, managing, and nurturing the built and natural environments. CMA’s Landscape Architecture studio focuses on contributing to a community’s health and well-being; equity and inclusion; economic development; sustainability and resilience. Our studio works with all levels of government, institutions, and private developers to create quality outdoor experiences for end users.

Public outreach is at the heart of the design process for transformational parks and public spaces and is one of three key factors that lead to the creation of “High Performance Public Spaces” that generate economic, environmental, and social sustainability benefits for their local community. We use a mixed methods approach to determining residents’ needs, desires, and priorities, including on-site and city-wide surveys, public open houses, stakeholder interviews, focus group meetings, on- line engagement, and other techniques. We don’t just wait for residents to come to us; we “go to where the people are” including neighborhoods, condominiums, churches, schools, and other gathering spaces. Coordinating with a City, we encourage activation of a park during the design process that includes programs and activities such as yoga, food trucks, movies in the park, etc. to gauge public reaction, understand how the space can be inhabited, and gain real time feedback as we develop our design concepts.

Sea Level Rise

As sea level rise and increased rainfall intensity has become a more evident driver of flooding, CMA has responded with infrastructure designs that improve resiliency within communities. In the City of Miami Beach, we provided engineering and construction administration on a design-build project for the Sunset Islands that elevated roadways and constructed stormwater pump stations to provide positive discharge and access to critical facilities even as the tailwater elevation rises. We have also provided engineering solutions to conveyance canals, bank stabilization, large culverts and water control structures. Each of these facilities are critical components of the infrastructure that provides flood protection in our communities