John Bela Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

Urban Field is a Bay Area urban design collective that focuses on a holistic approach to crafting human scale spaces while creating complete neighborhoods. Bringing together expertise in development strategy, masterplanning, streetscape, active mobility, and transit oriented design, we engage closely with communities, municipalities, and private sector partners to shape sustainable and resilient neighborhoods. We share a passion for great cities and a complete and connected public realm. We love making places for people. || urbanfieldstudio.com

Bela Urbanism + Design was founded by John Bela in 2021. Our work encompasses urban strategy, masterplan frameworks, active mobility, transportation, public realm design, and public art. || johnbela.com ||

Spring 2022: LDARCH 226; Social Furniture and Public Seating Design & FabricationFall 2013: Adaptive Metropolis Studio

Park(ing) Day is a global, public, participatory event launched by Rebar in 2005. It is a day where people across the world temporarily repurpose curb lane parking spaces and convert them to tiny parks and places for art, play, and activism to promote safer, greener, and more equitable streets for people || myparkingday.org

Environmental Art and Design Studio

San Francisco Bay Area

As a partner and director at Gehl San Francisco, I led work in People First Design, Mobility, and Masterplan Frameworks from Western Canada to Latin America. Recent work includes the India Basin Masterplan in San Francisco, Places for People Strategy for downtown Vancouver, Reimagining Stephen Avenue in Calgary, and Urban Mobility consulting for Silicon Valley technology firms. My passion is to combine design excellence and public life insights to create human-scale neighborhoods, great streets, and a diverse, inclusive, resilient public realm.

Landscape Design

Mla, Landscape Architecture

Masters of Landscape Architecture

Sculpture, Performance