Matt Williams is an urban planner, landscape designer, drone photographer and videographer based in Detroit, MI.

Matt serves as an urban planner in the City of Detroit Planning and Development Department leading the Warrendale Cody Rouge Strategic Neighborhood Framework plan in addition to offering spatial analysis and design expertise to city-wide planning initiatives. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton’s School Of Business, before working as an assistant buyer and planner at Lord & Taylor Co. in New York.

Passion for community, culture, and gardens led Matt to explore large parks, urban agriculture, and environmental justice projects across the nation. He then enrolled at Louisiana State University where he received the degree of Master of Landscape Architecture, and worked as an instructor in digital media representation for two years. He also worked as a project manager with the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian Council, where he helped raise grant funding, built organizational capacity and managed their cultural campus development project. In 2016, Matt joined the Spackman Mossop Michael landscape architecture firm as a Designer. He relocated to his hometown of Detroit to establish a local office from 2017 to 2019, prior to joining the City of Detroit Planning & Development Department.