Marc Ryan

Marc Ryan is a landscape architect with a focus on the design of cities. With more than 25 years of practice in Canada, Europe and USA, he has dedicated his passion, advocacy, and professional work toward elevating the role of landscape and the public realm in shaping the quality of urban environments. Marc is principal and co-founder of PUBLIC WORK, a Toronto-based office for urban design and landscape architecture focused on one of the foremost public topics today—the thoughtful evolution of the contemporary city. His design practice is centred on projects for the public realm using landscape as a primary medium, providing leadership to uncover and create a dramatic new sense of place. Much of Marc’s work takes a critical second look at the terrain of our cities in search of impactful design interventions to revitalize the parks, public spaces and infrastructure that already exist—or, in some cases, invent new kinds of collective spaces in less conventional places. Since co-founding