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Our approach to any project is rooted in an environmental ethos which frames our understanding and forms the basis for creative and appropriate response.

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WRT plans and designs parks and open spaces that improve quality of life, foster economic development, and protect the environment.

We work to understand what makes each assignment unique—the political, economic, natural, and administrative realities that enable us to create enduring projects. Our plans and designs are not predicated on a specific form or style, but rather driven by attention to specific local contexts and conditions, backed up by decades of institutional knowledge from working in the public realm.

The Parklands of Floyds Fork, Louisville, Kentucky

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Transforming an obsolete industrial site into a vibrant civic space in the nation's capital.

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Georgetown Waterfront Park, Washington, DC

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With a 50-year legacy of designing with nature, we understand park networks and open spaces as ecosystems, comprised of people, natural processes, institutions, and built infrastructure.

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01 / Resilient Communities

When these systems are in balance, they can both thrive in the present and adapt to changing conditions. By designing for resilience, we create public spaces that prepare us for climate threats while providing vibrant, healthy, sustainable places for our communities to live, work, and play—now and into the future.

Principal Riverwalk, Des Moines, Iowa

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Community park improvements honor historic structures while expanding shoreline paths, seating, and public green space.

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Lake Merritt Park, Oakland, California

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We adhere to the adaptive process of “creative fitting� to find the balance between the changing needs of users and the environment’s capacity to sustainably incorporate these needs.

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02 / Creative Fitting

This process is driven by the inherent character of a site and the particular ways in which it is used and valued by people. Our parks and open spaces are designed with an attention to specific attributes and local context, including details that are relevant and relatable, not imported or imposed from other places and assignments. Each project is unique, and we strive to discover and reveal the special qualities that give each public space its own identity.

Dutch Kills Green, Long Island City, New York

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A new "town green" and public event space reforges the cultural link to a city's manufacturing roots.

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SteelStacks Arts & Cultural Campus Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

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Every community deserves safe, convenient access to high quality public spaces where people can exercise, socialize, and interact with nature.

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03 / Equity and Health

Parks create opportunities for play, exercise, escape, community cohesion, and contact with nature. They support healthy people, create value in neighborhoods, and contribute to social equity at a city and regional scale.

Our work is imbued with public purpose, creating healthier, more vibrant environments that can improve quality of life for generations to come.

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Renovating a community destination that improves the play experience for all ages and manages stormwater.

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Kemp Mill Park, Silver Spring, Maryland

From start to finish, we do the work of reaching out, listening, and responding, ensuring people’s ideas, needs, and desires are effectively addressed. With clarity, purpose, and creativity, we apply proven engagement techniques across a spectrum of diverse communities and stakeholders Through partnerships we gain a shared knowledge base that helps unlock funding, leading to successful implementation and a sense of ownership for all stakeholders.

As planners and designers, we are dedicated to engaging and empowering under-represented and hard-to-reach stakeholders.

We partner with community organizations, civic authorities, land trusts, and non-profit groups to bring visions to reality.

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As planners and designers, we are dedicated to engaging and empowering underrepresented and hard-to-reach stakeholders. We partner with community organizations, civic authorities, land trusts, and non-profit groups to bring visions to reality.

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04 / Inclusive Design

From start to finish, we do the work of reaching out, listening, and responding, ensuring people’s ideas, needs, and desires are effectively addressed.

Through partnerships we gain a shared knowledge base that helps unlock funding, leading to successful implementation and a sense of ownership for all stakeholders.

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A new vision for the historic 348-acre park reflects community aspirations and inspires future investment.

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FDR Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

WRT has won more than 150 awards for its parks and open space work and received both the national ASLA Landscape Architecture Firm Award and the national APA Award for a Planning Firm.

WRT's practice addresses parks at all scales including Park System Plans, Park Master Plans, and Individual Park Design.

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Santa Monica Waterfront, Santa Monica, California

WRT is a national team of planners, urban designers, architects, and landscape architects.

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