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Building Urbanism: Design Process at EE&K/Perkins Eastman Architects
April 26, 2012
University of Minnesota alum, Peter Cavaluzzi, FAIA, gave a presentation about his firm's unique approach to architecture in which buildings and public spaces are conceived together as a complete design. His design for City Center, which brought urbanism for the first time to the Las Vegas strip, and other transformative large-scale projects such as Science City Union Station, and Baltimore Inner Harbor have garnered international recognition and numerous awards. Metropolitan Design Center sponsored this event.
Ignacio San Martin Keynote Speaker at MN CERTS Spring Event
April 18, 2012
Professor San Martin shared his research on the Twin Cities ecological footprint, which looks at the impacts of consumption in the 7-county Metro area. Attendees were surprised to learn that the Twin Cities region has aan above averge ecolotical footprint. San Martin explained that this is due in large part to the design of our metropolitan region which often requires driving a single-occupancy vehicle. Read more...
MinnPost Interviews MDC Director about St. Anthony Main District
April, 2012
Students in the Fall 2011 M. Arch Graduate Urban Design Studio 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.
November 14 - November 30
2011 UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER TRAVEL
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
Research work from the 2011 recipients:
Heng Zhao - China
Jackie Saffert - Spain
Roy Cloutier - Portland, OR
Rapson Hall Lower Gallery
The Role of The Ecological Footprint Assessment in
Guiding Sustainable Metropolitan Growth (pdf)
Presented by Ignacio San Martin
Sustainable Neighborhood Design Conference
November 5, 2011
Sustainable Neighborhood Design Conference
November 5, 2011
This one-day conference included presentations on
local sustainable neighborhood projects at UMORE Park in
Rosemount, the University District Alliance, The Ford Plant Site
in St. Paul, and the Eco-Village in north Minneapolis.
International Guest Speaker: Stellan Fryxell
Swedish architect and project manager for the renowned
sustainable development, Hammarby Sjostad, near Stockholm.
Event sponsored by CSBR and MDC.
The Oberlin Project is a joint effort by Oberlin College
and the City of Oberlin to create “full-spectrum sustainability”
The aim is to create a community for a post-fossil-fuel era.
Ecological Footprint for the Twin Cities:
Impacts of Consumption in the
7-County Metro Area
The Metropolitan Design Center has completed a
comprehensive research project aimed at calculating
the Ecological Footprint of the Twin Cities
metropolitan region. Using various methods of
investigation, this study concluded that the current
footprint for the Twin Cities amounts to 12.02 gh/p
above the calculated 9.5 US national average.
The research offers useful tools and recommendations
for measuring the sustainable performance of planning
policies for the Twin Cities metropolitan region.
December 3, 2010
PACO BURGOS and GINES GARRIDO
Soft Infrastuctures
Archtects, Burgos & Garrido Arquitectos Asociados
Madrid, Spain
Infrastructures have shredded territory and
fragmented cities; they are not part of them but
have been imposed on them. Is this irreversible?
How can we make them be part of cites and
participate in creating a humanized landscape?
November 19, 2010
MDC Director, Ignacio San Martin presented
Phase I of "Toward an Urban Design Framework for
the University District" at a brown bag luncheon at
the Minneapolis Community Planning and Economic
Development Office.
June 16, 2010
ROBERT HAMMOND New York’s High Line
PDF Poster
Walker Arts Center
May 13, 2010
JAMIE DEAN East London’s Green Grid
Humphrey Institute
