The Metropolitan Design Center is an emerging design and research-based institution within the College of Design at the University of Minnesota, conceived to facilitate an environment for creative thinking and public engagement while fostering an integrative view of Urban and Metropolitan Design, bringing together many fields of design and research to advance creative design strategies for achieving sustainable development of cities and regions in the State of Minnesota.

Urban Design Framework
for the St. Anthony Main District

This report presents work of the Fall 2011 M. Arch Graduate Urban Design Studio. The students analyzed and redesigned an area within the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood that is the birthplace of Minneapolis. The Twin Cities Daily Planet published a recent article about the neighborhood's response to some of the ideas generated by the students.