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Baden Community Open Space Plan, Rod Barnett
Baden Community Open Space Plan, Rod Barnett
Books and Monographs
A team led by professor Rod Barnett has completed the Baden Community Open Space Plan. In summer 2016, Barnett and a team of research assistants collaborated with the on-the-ground team to engage residents to understand their needs. This data, combined with ecological data points, and public health assessments collected in the community, informed the proposed masterplan. In the voids created by voluntary buyout and demolition, the Baden neighborhood has an opportunity to redefine how infrastructure and greenspace can come together to create a space that serves residents. The team of partners has included the Green City Coalition, the City of …
Mufi 2017-2018 Reports, Miami Urban Future Initiative, Florida International University
Mufi 2017-2018 Reports, Miami Urban Future Initiative, Florida International University
Miami Urban Future Initiative
Greater Miami has experienced remarkable economic success in recent years. The metro area—which spans Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties—is now the eighth-largest in the United States, with around 6.1 million residents and economic output that exceeds that of many nations. As a symbol of Miami’s dramatic growth, its downtown has been stunningly transformed into a bustling area featuring new restaurants and hotels, an expanding cluster of startup companies, and a twenty-first century skyline of high-rise offices and condo towers.
The Freeman Performing Arts Center, Community Design Center
The Freeman Performing Arts Center, Community Design Center
Project Reports
The Freeman Performing Arts Center marks the threshold between prairie and civic life. This small agricultural community of 1,300 has an outsized Anabaptist music tradition recognized nationally. The 37,000 sf hall-type building unifies a miscellaneous collection of public buildings and landscapes at the southwest corner of the town’s one-mile grid. The center’s massing projects an ascending system of familiar gable roofs, which absorb the fly tower into a composition reflective of pragmatic building forms. The principal face of the building is a translucent curtain wall that illuminates interior massing—a beacon on the prairie. A thru-Porch celebrates transitions between the prairie’s …
Interview With Ted Lorensen, Ted Lorensen, Lloyd Chapman, James B. Knight, Michael Rupp
Interview With Ted Lorensen, Ted Lorensen, Lloyd Chapman, James B. Knight, Michael Rupp
People and the Land: An Oral History of Oregon’s Statewide Land Use Planning Program
Ted Lorensen was interviewed by Michael Rupp, Lloyd Chapman, and Jim Knight on October 20, 2017, in Portland, Oregon.