PlaceMatters assisted the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) with their update to MetroPlan, the 1990 regional plan for Metropolitan Boston, which covers 101 cities and towns in northeastern Massachusetts. PlaceMatters' work on the visioning process, incorporating a wide range of people, organizations, and public participation tools, resulted in a “tapestry of visions” that celebrates the diversity in place and opinion.

PlaceMatters worked with several partners on the Philadelphia LANDvisions project to help citizens envision a future for the city's vacant lands.  With over 40, 000 vacant properties, Philadelphia had become one of the nation's foremost examples of urban abandonment and sprawl.  The lands were fertile ground for imagining solutions that use ecology to shape urban form and inspire change. 

VISION 2015 was a community planning initiative that helped define the future of Northern Kentucky by producing a 10-year strategic blueprint that builds upon its parent, the QUEST VISION, launched in 1995. Five action teams addressed critical issues related to economic competitiveness, education excellence, effective governance, livable communities and urban renaissance.