About Us

The Urban Conservancy’s core values guide our interaction with each other, our stakeholders, our associates and our community. Our values provide consistency as we strive to meet our goals.

Why Protect Urban Environments?

Urban neighborhoods provide diversity, community, cultural activities and amenities in pedestrian friendly environments. Urban neighborhoods should provide choices for how we live our lives. They should maintain a human scale and allow for a range of transportation options.

Local Control

We support the right of communities to democratically control their urban environment. We believe that positive global change starts from local initiatives.

Local, Sustainable Economies

We support diversified local economies that sustain the people who live and work in the community.

Improve Quality of Life

We direct all of our efforts towards activities that promote an improved quality of life for all community residents.

We Are Business People

We support business practices that strengthen local communities and stakeholders. We manage our own business in this way as well.

We Are Entrepreneurial

We are shrewd and nimble entrepreneurs. We adopt best practices freely. We outthink rather than outspend.

We Value Progress and Progressive Thinking

We are a group of learners as well as educators. We celebrate cooperation and diverse thinking to challenge and invigorate our work.

We Focus on Community Assets

We believe all urban environments possess inherent assets. We bring creativity and energy to communities working to build upon these strengths.

New Orleans Inspires Us

Without the inspiration of New Orleans’ culture, dynamism, architecture, and, most importantly, its people, our organization could not exist.