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The gardens at the Palace of Versailles, France, designed by André Le Nôtre.
In the context of landscape architecture, master planning is a large-scale approach to land use, conservation, and development. It focuses on comprehensive areas or units of landscape topography rather than individual sites.1
Projects included in master planning typically involve the development of comprehensive systems, such as:
- Open space networks1
- Park and recreation systems1
- Water and drainage infrastructure1
- Transportation systems1
- Utility networks1
While site planning addresses the precise arrangement of specific buildings and landscape elements, master planning operates at a broader scale to establish the framework for these smaller developments. Ideally, these phases follow a continuous, sequential process, though in practice, they are often performed by different professionals at varying times.1