About Urban Village Designs LLC
Urban Village Designs LLC is a for-benefit company, run by our wife and husband team, Drake and Lucas James. We are driven by the idea that sustainable and regenerative culture can and should exist in the urban environment.
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The urban village, to be a vibrant and thriving experience of reciprocity, connection and health, is in desperate need for radical healing to both place and people. In order for our “urban villages” to be regenerative, we must consider a multi-dimensional approach to working on the land, while we nurture the healing of ourselves and our communities.
We meet people where they are by offering land stewardship--an evolving practice of landscaping--that has the ability to combine modern techniques, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and sustainable technologies to meet a wide range of aesthetic preferences and ecological benefits.
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In so, our mission is to foster place-based, co-creative and mutually beneficial relationships between humans and the natural world through sustainable and regenerative landscaping design, installation, stewardship and education--tailored to your unique interests and property needs. Learn more about our services here.​
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We have never worked with a company exhibiting the diligence, integrity and communication skills of UVD, and we’ve worked with many, in several states. They were transparent and up-front about costs and timelines, and the likelihood of divergence (and its potential cost/benefit) from those things. In sum, they are the very definition of professionalism. Personally, I’ve never met more likable, personable, trustworthy people - we gave them free rein of our property, inside and out. Last, but not least, we felt like their pricing was fair and reasonable. Anyone in need of a highly professional, reasonable, talented landscape company with a focus on creating beneficial habitat for birds and pollinators could do no better than to utilize this dynamic young company. They're a class act in every sense of the word.
-Chris H.
