Peter Cookson Smith

Dr. Peter Cookson Smith is an architect, planner, and urban designer. He has been a resident of Hong Kong since 1977 where he founded URBIS – one of the first specialist planning, urban design and landscape consultancies in South-east Asia. Over the past forty years the firm has won more than 200 local and international awards for their work in China and other parts of Asia. Peter is a past professor at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Architecture and a past-president of both the Hong Kong Planning and Urban Design Institutes. He writes and lectures widely on the subject of urban design.