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George collaborates and provides advice to a range of public, private and not for profit organizations and leads the strategic design direction of large-scale urban regeneration projects in Canada through georgefdark.design.

George is an urban designer, landscape architect and member of both the College of Fellows of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects and the Council of Fellows of the American Society of Landscape Architects. He is the recipient of the second Governor Generals Medal in Landscape Architecture, the highest award in Landscape Architecture granted in Canada. Prior to forming georgefdark.design George was managing partner of Toronto based Urban Strategies Inc until his retirement in 2021.   His 45 years of professional experience and has seen him lead a broad variety of assignments including new community plans, institutional master plans, transit plans, urban regeneration strategies and development projects, campus master plans, open space master plans, a national development plan and national park for Barbados and numerous public policy documents. 

George’s work focuses on the quality of urban environments, coordinating large groups of diverse professionals and guiding projects through complex design, approval, and consultation processes. He assists public and private organizations with institutional strengthening, design management and both civic and national urban design process. Over the past 20 years George has developed a focus on the strategic design direction of large-scale urban regeneration projects putting him at the centre of design decisions for some of the largest urban projects in Canada.

George is very active in the charitable and not for profit sectors in Canada having served as Board Chair of the Evergreen Foundation of Canada for over 12 years while creating and opening Brickworks in Toronto , leading to his appointment as Chairman Emeritus of the organization. He served as Chairman of the Centre for Social Innovation in Toronto and recently finished his second term as the Vice Chair of the Board. He was appointed by the Province of Ontario for two terms, as a Trustee of the McMichael Canadian Collection Gallery serving as the chair of the Property and Grounds committee of the board of trustees for 6 years. 

George has been granted an HonRAIC by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in 2024 .

George is available to participate and advise on a consulting basis to private and government sector, not for profit, charitable and institutional organizations. You can contact him below or leave a message here .

email George at : mailsystem@duck.com