Building Community
Creating Places
Using Commmon Sense
Program Areas
Major Initiatives
Special Features
- Great Public Spaces
- Image Collection
- Making Places
Bulletin - Discussion Forums
- Places in the News
- PPS Project Updates
PPS Favorites
- What If We Built Our Cities Around Places?
- Great Waterfronts of the World
- Pride of Place
Governing Magazine - Placemaker Profile: Allan Jacobs
Master Planning
What all is involved in creating a vision for a park's future - and seeing it through to implementation? Learn more with the features, guidelines and case studies in this section.- The Benefits and Drawbacks of Master Planning
A primer on developing a tangible vision of your park's present and future - and what's required to get there. From Project for Public Spaces' Public Parks, Private Partners.
- Lessons in Master Planning
Master planning, especially when it makes use of significant community involvement, is a complex process. In reviewing master-planning projects in six widely varying urban public spaces, the Urban Parks Institute identifies key elements that make for success.
- Developing Effective Master Plans
Susan Rademacher (Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy) and Fred Kent (Project for Public Spaces) on structuring a process, building a team, and developing a design.
