A Bright Perspective
on Place

Prospect Studio is an urban planning and design practice focused on shaping the spaces and places where people want to be.

Our Work

We partner with city-builders, neighbours, and decision makers to bring clarity to the development process and bright ideas to life.

We work across all scales to support thriving main streets, vibrant transit-oriented communities, and diverse housing options for all ages, wages, and stages.

Our Services

  • We work across scales, from site strategy and master planning to the design of streets and public spaces, always rooted in the unique context, social fabric, and potential of a place. Our goal is to create vibrant, livable places with a high quality of everyday life, helping clients make strategic decisions that unlock the full potential of a site.

  • Good places are built with people, not just for them. We create meaningful opportunities for residents and stakeholders to shape the projects happening in their communities — asking better questions, listening carefully, and translating what we hear into better design.

  • Planning is full of complexity that can easily exclude the people it's meant to serve. We translate it, turning technical documents, dense proposals, and abstract ideas into clear, accessible content that builds understanding and invites participation.

  • We guide projects from early concept through approvals, helping clients test ideas, build strong consultant teams, and navigate the planning process with clarity. Our focus is on outcomes that work for people, not just ones that clear regulatory hurdles.

Our Team

With over two decades of combined experience leading complex and diverse urban planning and community engagement projects, Prospect Studio brings a sense of calm, rigour, and clarity to every process.

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Black and white portrait of a young man with short, slightly messy hair, wearing a dark t-shirt and a knit cardigan, standing with arms crossed and looking at the camera against a plain light background.

Boris Karn
BHSc, MPlan, RPP, MCIP
Principal

A perennial optimist, Boris is driven by the real potential to make our cities better and more joyful places to live and move through. Always up for a design challenge, he sees constraint as the necessary frame for creative problem solving.

As a Chair of The City of Calgary's Urban Design Review Panel, he regularly provides planning and urban design peer-review, feedback and insight for local planning and development applications of significant scale or impact.

In his day to day, Boris plans the strategic road ahead, manages the ongoing operations of Prospect, and leads complex growth and change propositions. His progressive, multi-disciplinary experience spans over a decade and includes public and private sector projects in development approvals, master planning, municipal and regional land use planning, major transportation infrastructure, information design, and community engagement.

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Kalika Hoogstraten
BEnvD, MCP, RPP, MCIP, LEED Green Associate
Principal

Kalika is drawn to the spaces between disciplines: where urban planning and design collide, where data meets lived experience, and where good communication is what moves a project forward. With a decade of experience across public, private, and not-for-profit sectors, she has led work in urban design, land use planning, transit-oriented development, non-market housing, and downtown revitalization.

Grounded in a background in both Environmental Design and City Planning, she brings a cross-disciplinary outlook to every project: equal parts analytical rigour and creative curiosity. She bridges the gap between technical complexity and shared understanding, translating dense planning processes into clear, accessible conversations that invite broader participation.

At the core of her practice is a commitment to equitable, healthy, and well-designed places, the kind that people actively seek out and choose to call home.

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Interested in learning more about our approach or have a project in mind? We’re here to help.