Miasto is a consultancy focused on creating civic life through thriving public realms, urban fabrics, parks, and outdoor spaces.

About Miasto

Miasto believes bringing people together for shared experiences in the public realm is essential to healthy and flourishing communities. The firm brings together expertise in creative placemaking and public realm programming, operations, maintenance, management, economics, and design.

With Miasto, you are hiring expertise in:

  • Operating and maintaining highly active urban parks, including past experiences of managing Salesforce Park in downtown San Francisco and Fair Park in Dallas.

  • Creating and implementing successful public realm programming and activation strategies that bring in new visitors, support community building, and expand offerings.

  • Helping urban districts overcome challenges of safety, vacancies, and lack of foot traffic/vibrancy by enhancing arts, culture, and connectivity.

  • Design solutions that make a park or public realm attractive, welcoming, usable, and beloved.

  • Identifying earned revenue sources and techniques to raise philanthropic dollars for active parks and public realms.

  • Engagement strategies for building consensus, gathering public and stakeholder input, and collaborative problem solving.

Ashley Langworthy, Principal + Founder

Ashley has been in practice for more than 20 years and draws from her diverse experience in planning, economics, design, public realm asset management, creative placemaking, and real estate. She works with designers, owners, and communities on park and public realm projects, creating plans and design strategies for public realm activation, management, maintenance, operations, governance, and ongoing revenue strategies.

Ashley has extensive experience overseeing complex urban redevelopment projects with multiple consultants and significant community outreach. Prior to forming Miasto, Ashley was the Vice President at placemaking and park management firm, Biederman Redevelopment Ventures (BRV), and an urban designer at firms SWA Group and Hart Howerton.

Ashley is an active member of the Urban Land Institute, serving on ULI’s National Sustainable Development Council, ULI Seattle’s Urban Development and Mixed-Use Council, and ULI Seattle’s NEXT Steering Committee. Ashley holds a Master in Urban Planning from Harvard University and a BA in Economics from Tufts University. Ashley is a certified planner (AICP) and a registered Landscape Architect.

Origins of the name Miasto

Miasto means city or town in Polish. Ashley chose this name for the firm to celebrate her Polish heritage. Her boisterous, close-knit, striving, and civic-minded immediate and extended family has always encouraged her to be a positive contributor to her community, and to keep reaching and pushing to make an impact. Her family origins, coupled with her strong commitment to improving cities and civic life, cemented Ashley's desire to start Miasto.

100% Women-owned

Miasto is in the process of establishing certification to be WBE (Women’s Business Enterprise) at the federal level.