The Boston Metropolitan Area Urban Long-term Ecological Research Area (BMA-ULTRA-EX) Project is an interdisciplinary project that is studying the effects of socio-economic and bio-physical drivers on urban ecosystems. The Boston region is experiencing low-density urban sprawl (suburbanization) on the rural-urban fringe that is creating environmental impacts to natural resources. At the same time, central cities such as Boston are seeing disinvestment in some low-income neighborhoods causing property abandonment, along with limited infil development (densification) near the commercial core and transit hubs. These competing socio-economic forces of suburbanization, densification, and disinvestment have environmental implications for urban ecosystems. Landscape planning initiatives to address these issues wil require a pro-active approach to concentrating development on currently built lands and in the suburban fringe to protect natural resources, while greening and enhancing ecosystem services in the current high-density urban core. It is within this landscape planning setting that the research team used a stakeholder- driven process to develop a set of four planning scenarios to explore the future of the region. This paper wil describe the planning process with stakeholders to develop these plans, along with the preliminary analyses. It wil conclude with insights for other landscape planners engaged in scenario planning.%波士顿大都市区城市长期生态研究区（BMA-ULTRA-EX）项目是一个跨学科的项目，正在研究对城市生态系统有影响的社会经济和生物物理领域。波士顿地区正在经历着的城乡结合部的低密度城市扩张（郊区化）对自然资源和环境产生了一定的影响。与此同时，像波士顿这样的中心城市，伴随着商业中心和交通枢纽附近的有限的加密开发（致密），一些低收入社区正在面临着经济的衰落。这些社会经济力量竞争过程中的郊区化、致密化和撤资也对城市生态环境系统产生影响。通过景观规划措施来解决这些问题，需要一个积极主动的做法，将目前建成的土地集中发展，而在边缘郊区保护自然资源，同时在当前高密度的城市核心区增加绿化并提高生态系统服务功能。通过这种景观规划方法，研究小组利用一个利益相关者驱动的过程，制定出一套4个情景规划方案来探索区域的未来。描述了这个利益相关者参与的规划过程，并进行初步分析，最后，为其他从事情景规划的景观规划师们总结了项目的经验。
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