Jeff Spiehs is the Senior Planner at Lamp Rynearson and works with a team of landscape architects and civil engineers to leave a legacy of lasting impact and creating more equitable communities. He is often thinking about how people desire to interact with spaces and about his role in helping to create that lived experience in the places we inhabit. We talk about how we live and could live in our urban environments, bringing community values and voices into the planning process, what for him characterizes a utopia and a dystopia, and how he came into this vocation.