Transforming places through development of the public realm is to harness the power of public space for the common good of a community. By recognizing and developing the potential of places, landscape design can realize transformation that achieves enhanced livability, improved public health, and stronger community-based social structures. As an instrument, landscape creates diversity and resilience, boosts economic opportunity, and establishes image and identity. As an intervention, landscape provides clarity, sophistication, elegance and beauty. This publication explores landscape design responses to the challenges of rapidly changing and often complex environments. It discusses strategy, opportunity, and multidisciplinary problem solving to create solutions that transform environments to become places of regional significance.