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Public advocacy has always played a strong role in architecture, planning and preservation, and now thanks to the efforts of organizations like Light Boston, lighting is also a beneficiary of community input. Founded in 1996, this all-volunteer effort is a vehicle for its founder Anne Witherby to pursue lighting historical and cultural sites in the city of Boston. The nonprofit organization's activities are centered around the Diamond Necklace Project, an 88-page published report focusing on 25 sites. As the report states: "The purpose of this plan is to create and implement a vision for downtown Boston at night." Just as landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted envisioned a systern of linked parks and open spaces for the city, called the Emerald Necklace, the Diamond Necklace will complement this tradition with a chain of illuminated landmarks, structures, and public spaces.