Queen City Planning

The Queen City Planning Series comprises four planning documents developed over a decade. The individual documents include a comprehensive plan, a strategic plan for downtown, a strategic plan for the waterfront, and a restoration and management plan for the Olmsted park system. Together, they represent a nearly complete body of planning work for the City of Buffalo. Urban Design Project (now merged with UB Regional Institute) led this planning series to work with the community to shape a new vision for Buffalo, NY. The series was led by experts, but built by citizens and community leaders to ensure an informed and actionable dialogue about the future of the city, including important decisions emerging around land use, downtown development, waterfront and the Olmsted Park System. “In 2030 Buffalo will be the Queen City of the Great Lakes once more, growing again, renewed, and rebuilt from its foundations, a model of smart growth and sustainability.”