Lian Farhi

New York, NY

Lian Farhi is an urban planner and designer who explores the interrelationships between the public realm, urban mobility, and placemaking. She possesses a multidisciplinary background and more than a decade of experience practicing architecture, urban design, and multimodal transportation planning in the private and public sectors. Lian has designed, implemented, and managed a range of real-world projects to create safe, livable, and future-ready streets, and has conducted quality-of-life studies to quantify the benefits of public realm improvements on community health, safety, and economic vitality. She has broad experience in developing vision plans, design guidelines, and robust outreach and community engagement processes.

At Sam Schwartz, she leads the urban design practice, encompassing streetscape projects focusing on pedestrian and micromobility circulation, public realm vision plans, and sustainable mobility research. Lian also has international experience in transportation planning, working on the design of Tel Aviv’s mass transit system and conducting research in Europe for NTA.

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Senior Associate + Director of Planning and Urban Design

Expertise

• Urban Design

• Urban Planning

• Transportation Planning

Leadership