Our cities require services and infrastructures to provide more sustainable outcomes while addressing our greatest challenges. 

WE NEED TO DO MORE WITH LESS.

A systems approach is necessary across scales and boundaries to create equitable, sustainable and resilient campuses, communities and cities.

WE HAVE TO DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY.

By working with the people these systems serve we can de-infrastructure*, redesign, and re-engineer our cities.

WE MUST LISTEN, AND WORK TOGETHER.

BUSS is about finding new solutions to make our cities more equitable, sustainable and resilient by doing more with less, doing differently and doing together.

Steven Baumgartner believes we should be basing recommendations on system solutions based on evidence, experience and empathy.

*de-infrastructure = (verb) dē/ˈinfrəˌstrək(t)SHər

• to break down heavier infrastructures to a scale that allows transparency, so those that are impacted by the system can understand and influence it;

• to more closely connect the supply to the demand;

• a word Steven made up to describe his work.

Read “De-Infrastructuring” in the Era of the 15-Minute City” in UrbanLand (June, 2021). Steven provides an in-depth look at the 15-minute city concept and why “De-Infrastructuring” our cities will connect people to goods and services in a carbon-free and—Baumgartner would argue—more equitable way.

Listen to Regenerative Real Estate Podcast where Steven elaborates on his philosophies, design processes and critical importance of de-infrastructuring our cities.