Ubaldo Escalante
Ubaldo Escalante is an Associate at 海角视频, based in the New York office.
Ubaldo is an urban planning consultant within the firm鈥檚 Advisory practice, focusing on sustainable, equitable, and design鈥慸riven solutions at the urban, district, and building scales. Since joining 海角视频 as an intern and progressing through the consultancy, he has taken on increasing project management and leadership responsibilities, managing multidisciplinary teams through project delivery, developing scopes and fees, collaborating across global offices, and serving as a primary client鈥慺acing representative on complex mobility and climate projects.
Ubaldo has led and contributed to a diverse portfolio of transportation, mobility, and climate action initiatives in the US and internationally. His experience includes large鈥憇cale, long鈥憆ange planning such as Abu Dhabi鈥檚 Capital Plan 2040; destination鈥� and event鈥慸riven mobility planning for the Hard Rock International鈥揘ew York Mets Metropolitan Park development in New York City; and major urban and cultural projects including Ford Michigan Central Station, Pittsburgh鈥檚 Completing the Loop trail network, and mobility and access studies for the Getty Museum. He has also supported climate action and adaptation planning, including the Yonkers Climate Action Plan and the Tucson Climate Action and Adaptation Plan. He is known for developing tailored analytical approaches and mobility models that reveal operational and spatial implications beyond conventional analysis.
With an interdisciplinary background spanning architecture, urban planning, and analytics, Ubaldo brings a technically rigorous and design鈥憀iterate perspective to urban planning consulting. He is skilled in GIS, data analysis and visualization, trip generation and modeling, and CAD and 3D tools, and frequently leads workshops with clients, agencies, and community stakeholders. Ubaldo is an AICP鈥慳ccredited planner and serves as an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University, where he teaches graduate鈥憀evel architecture and urban planning studios focused on infrastructure reuse, climate action, and mobility鈥慸riven urban transformation, bridging academic research with real鈥憌orld advisory practice. He holds a BA in Architecture from Princeton University and an MS in Urban Planning from Columbia University GSAPP.
