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Past Projects : 1996-2000

89th Avenue Road Design Initiative
A strategy for the redesign and greening of a former county road in the city of Blaine, with neighborhood involvement.
Creating a Landscape in the Pleasure Creek Neighborhood
A suburban yard planting brochure created to provide homeowners with information to enhance the habitat, water, and visual quality of their residential landscape.
- Download the brochure:
  - Pleasure Creek Brochure (904K)
Crystal Greenway Neighborhood and Bassett's Creek Wetland Park
Case Studies: Wetland Restoration to Create Community Amenity
and Form
The Design Center collaborated with CALA's Department of Landscape Architecture to produce two of five case studies that explored the design of wetlands as community amenities. The Crystal Greenway case study examined these issues in a suburban context; the Bassett's Creek case study was in an urban setting.
Fifty-year Master Planning Process for the City of East Grand Forks
Development of land-use and design strategies for rebuilding East Grand Forks, Minnesota neighborhoods, following the floods of 1997.
Humboldt Greenway
The Humboldt Greenway aimed to revitalize the housing market and long-term livability in two post-war neighborhoods-Lind-Bohanon and Shingle Creek-in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
National Conference on the Future of the First Ring
A three-day conference that brought together designers, policy makers, and scholars, to discuss design and policy issues confronting first-ring suburbs, within the context of evolving metropolitan regions. Work on first ring suburbs was part of the Community Connections Project. Design Center files from this project were donated to the Northwest Architectural Archives in 2005.
- Download the report:
  - In a Borderless World, Where is the Middle? (9 MB)
Northside Family Public Housing Study (MPHA/Sumner-Olson)
Design Center was invited by the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA) to review issues related to their troubled family housing in Minneapolis' Sumner-Glenwood neighborhood.
Park Place, Farmington

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