This research is intended to present a participatory and collaborative creation of geographic visualization, especially, in the community-based planning process. Responding to the recently emerging discussions of ‘the visual’ as more than mere “facts” in critical visual methodologies, geographic visualization, and participatory GIS, this study shows the expansion of the practice of geovisualization as a participatory and collective endeavor that actively includes local residents, and represents their shared ideas in the planning process. Geovisualization gives a critical consciousness to the locals to find, reflect, and construct their local knowledge, which had been often ignored in the traditional planning process. Local participants can see how their understandings of neighborhoods are prescribed, contextualized, conflicted, negotiated, and then visualized in various forms of eovisualization (e.g. neighborhood boundary maps with related photos). Examples from the Masten District Neighborhood Plan(MDNP) in Buffalo, New York demonstrate how the participatory and collaborative nature of geovisualization emerges throughout the planning process.