“Beauty will save the world”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
How We Can Help
At Wise Cities Consulting, we offer heritage planning, design, and project management services that help communities and organizations navigate change - while protecting and enhancing what makes their places unique.
We work with clients to better understand their existing spaces, identify key assets and challenges, and develop practical plans for the future. Our approach focuses on thoughtful integration: ensuring that growth, development, and stewardship are done in ways that honour the past while preparing for the challenges of tomorrow.
Whether you’re managing a historic site, planning new development, or rethinking how existing buildings fit into your community’s future, we’re here to help. Our services are designed to create places and spaces that are beautiful, sustainable, and resilient.
Bridging sustainability and heritage to help communities grow wisely
At Wise Cities Consulting, we help communities adapt and grow—thoughtfully, sustainably, and in a way that honours their unique identity. Wise Cities Consulting brings together expertise in heritage conservation and sustainable development to offer a balanced, future-focused approach to community planning.
We work with towns and cities facing the pressures of rapid change, helping them chart a path forward that protects their place-based wealth, strengthens local economies, and creates resilient, beautiful places where people want to live and work. With a background in both environmental policy and heritage conservation, we understand how the built environment—buildings, streetscapes, and public spaces—can adapt to the challenges of a changing climate while preserving the character and cultural value that makes each community unique. Our approach ensures that growth enhances, rather than erases, a community’s identity.
Angus Affleck
Founder, Wise Cities Consulting
Angus Affleck has spent his career at the intersection of the heritage and environmental sectors, developing a deep understanding of how our built environment can adapt to the challenges of a rapidly changing climate—without losing its sense of place.
A graduate of the Willowbank School and Centre for Cultural Landscapes, Angus’s work is grounded in the belief that heritage conservation and sustainable development are two sides of the same coin. His passion lies in helping communities recognize the value of their existing buildings, cultural landscapes, and local economies as essential tools for building a more resilient, sustainable future.
Angus’s career has spanned public policy, private consulting, and design planning. He has worked for the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change for Ontario, contributed to leading environmental think tanks, and provided heritage consulting services across both public and private sectors. This diverse experience has given him a unique perspective on how communities can leverage their place-based wealth—historic buildings, streetscapes, and public spaces—as part of a smart, sustainable growth strategy.
In founding Wise Cities Consulting, Angus brings his expertise to communities facing change, helping them adapt in ways that honour their history, strengthen their identity, and create lasting value for future generations.
