Master Planning is an interplay and creative thinking process between a multi disciplinary group of professionals and the client and stakeholders.  An inclusive and wide reaching approach is essential to the success of a project with the ultimate goal of improved vitality and economic development for the community.  Incorporating a public input process will ensure the communities acceptance and project approval.  Through the master planning process one can describe the project's impact and influence on the regional landscape.   The process will develop a long range plan for phased development and successful project implementation.  The end product is a well thought out plan that has community and stakeholder buy in and is graphically depicted in colored plan perspective and landscape imagery. 

Urban design is the creation of unique and dynamic space that spans a spectrum of scales from small downtown retail districts to neighborhoods, to large regional areas.  It involves the arrangement of many elements including buildings, parking, public spaces, vehicle and pedestrian transportation, utilities and all the amenities that tie these elements together into a unifying theme and pattern.  It is the art of making place, creating attraction and stimulating economic development through the process.  It is the true application of the three arms of sustainability social equality, economic viability and environmental stewardship.  It many times involves a multidisciplinary team that collaborates to solve difficult problems and turn them into limitless opportunities.  The final product is an inspirational plan that identifies a program of elements that are arranged to express a unifying theme and pattern, unique and specific to the community and region.  Many of the elements involved in the urban design process include; unique and place specific architecture, mixed use development with first floor retail to activate the street, walkable neighborhoods, public gathering places, thematic streetscapes, identifiable commercial centers and the organization and placement of theme base amenities that tie all individual elements together into a continuous expression of theme.