URBAN-ECON was established in 1985 and has been growing in all aspects to become the only firm of development economists in Southern Africa of its size. The firm currently comprises more than twenty professional development economists with a wide variety of specialisation within the field of development economics and planning.

URBAN-ECON provides professional consulting services throughout the Southern African market and due to its past involvement in this Southern Region of Africa, has built up an extensive clientele network and established various economic databases of local and regional development circumstances.

The firm has four offices in South Africa from which its market can be effectively serviced, namely Pretoria, Cape Town, Durban and Pietersburg. Although each of these offices specialises in the regional circumstances of its area of location, the strong interaction between the branches ensures constant updating of resources, experience, knowledge and technology. This equips the firm as a whole to approach any economic developmental problem in a dynamic and authoritative manner.

Apart from URBAN-ECON's extensive local networking system of firms and specialists, working relationships have also been established with a number of international experts. This compliments URBAN-ECON's unique field of service delivery.