Dean Landy

Partner, RAIA

BArch(Hons), BDes(Arch)(Hons)

“A strong sense of place is critical to a project’s commercial outcomes. We aim to create people focussed places that are unique and integrate with their surrounding context."

Dean Landy is a Partner at ClarkeHopkinsClarke and leads our Urban Design and Mixed Use teams. For more than two decades, working within Australia and internationally, he has been a leading figure in mixed-use and community design, masterplanning new cities and town centres, and urban regeneration. He is a regular speaker at industry events and is the author of the 2016 book Creating Vibrant Communities.

Dean is highly regarded and sought-after for his ability to understand the commercial imperatives of complex projects and deliver them via meaningful engagement and strategic planning and design. Supporting communities’ aspirations, health and wellbeing through better design is a key motivation. The distinctive Creating Vibrant Communities design methodology outlined in his book helps our project teams identify and deliver both the tangible and intangible elements of great placemaking worldwide.


A natural connector of ideas and people, Dean has interdisciplinary expertise and a broad network of collaborators across multiple industries and countries. Articulate and impact-driven, he engages and inspires diverse teams behind a shared vision, forging mutually beneficial partnerships and creating adaptable places and spaces of enduring value to their communities.

Entrepreneurial by nature, Dean is the Founder and Director of One Heart Foundation, a for-purpose organisation working to break the poverty cycle in Africa. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including Deakin University’s Young Alumni Award.

Selected Work

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