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The Culture Now Project is an immersive investigation of the intersection of public policy, urban design, and the spatial manifestation of contemporary culture. Read more...
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Water, Infrastructure + Landscape 
The Salt Creek, running southeast from downtown Lincoln, and surrounding neighborhoods. Source: Alan Berger. Lincoln’s center city. INTRODUCTIONLincoln,...
 
Agricultural Field Trip to the Salinas Valley 
Agriculture in Lincoln is highly mechanized and focused on corn ethanol production. In order to better understand mechanized agriculture, we broadened our research...
California 
Research + Mappings 
Asymmetrical Growth Watershed Discretization Local Logistics Part I Local Logistics Part II Regional Logistics Part I Regional Logistics Part II ...
 
Perception & Territory 
In comparison to other cities in the United States with similar population densities, Newark has the highest percentage of city space that lies outside of walking...
Midterm 
SUPRAstructure 
Brian Chu and David Kim Thesis Design Midterm During the research phase of our project, we were interested in the Port of Newark because it is so integrated with...
Midterm 
FIELD MANUAL: MAKER HIGH 
Midterm Project Update Scott Rominger and Dexter Walcott Newark is the poster child for the American post-industrial, late-capitalist society. With its knowledge...
Midterm 
ALIEN PASTORAL 
Elena Hasbun and Gregory Pietrycha Midterm Update
Midterm 
MUSEUMSCAPE 
Museumscape is a distributed museum, that redirects pedestrian circulation to and between the underutilized interstices of the city that are within a walkable...
Midterm 
Charles Waldheim: Landscape Urbanism 
On Friday, March 23rd from 10-11:30 am, Charles Waldheim will join the Culture Now seminar to discuss his investigation of urban renewal and industrial economy in...
 
Alan Berger: Drosscapes 
On March 9, 2012, Alan Berger, principle at P-REX (Project for Reclamation Excellence) and Tenured Associate Professor in Urban Design and Planning at MIT,...
 
Andres Lepik: Small Scale, Big Change 
On February 24th, Andres Lepik, GSD Loeb Fellow and curator at MoMA's Architecture and Design Department, spoke to the Culture Now seminar about his recent...
 
Site Photos| Landscape Systems 
Site photos of Lincoln, Nebraska. All images are copyright Alan Berger MIT/ P-Rex. No use without written consent of author is permitted.
Lincoln Nebraska 
City of Labor 
Zohreh Ahmad and Lorena Skornicki Updated Midterm Proposal Research {} Protocols Perception From manufacturing to retail, the presence of the global supply...
Research 
Abandonment 
Drop Out by Josh Robinson This is the exploration of a long and ongoing lineage of drop out culture. In this context abandonment is used in the least as a...
cultural 
Abandonment 
Displaced Origins by Charlie Heid This study has arisen from a fascination that human beings need a purpose or way of identifying themselves in the context of their...
contextual 
Abandonment 
Abandonment of Conscience by Emily Meza Capitalism, modernism, and institutional bureaucracy have dramatically altered western society. The end of feudalism gave...
ethical, projects 
Transposition of Flow 
Brian Chu and David Kim Final Research Proposal Port Newark is one of the most distinguishable aspects of the city of Newark. Contrary to this fact, Newark is not...
Research 
FIELD MANUAL: MOBILE WORKSHOP 
Scott Rominger and Dexter Walcott Final Research Proposal Newark is the poster child for the American post-industrial, late-capitalist society. With its historical...
Research 
CONSCIOUS CONNECTION 
Avery Carrig & Michelle Frantellizzi Final Research Proposal Precis: Properties and businesses in Newark are primarily not owned by the city or the people that...
Research 
ALIEN PASTORAL 
Elena Hasbun and Gregory Pietrycha FINAL RESEARCH PROPOSAL Green space in Newark is currently divided between two extreme conditions. One condition is found in...
Research 
The River Cities Project: Introduction 
The River Cities Project By Michael Speaks, Dean The Ohio River originates in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and terminates in Cairo, Illinois. It is the largest...
Projects 
The River Cities Project: Paducah+ 
Paducah+ Paducah, KY The Paducah+ Studio started with the Manhattan Redux Studio's discovery that the problem is the solution, in defining futures for Paducah,...
 
The River Cities Project: Henderson, KY / Spring '11 
For the Spring 2011 semester, Martin Summers shifted the emphasis of the studio to the interior of the HMPL1 Power Plant. With progress underway and the city of...
Projects 
The River Cities Project: Northern Kentucky Historic... 
Students in Douglas Appler’s Historic Preservation Design Studio (HP 616) developed plans for the "Northern Kentucky Historic Art Spaces Trail." The studio...
Projects 
Culture Now: The Contemporary American Condition 
January 26, 2011 Culture Now: The Contemporary American Condition Our second paper fresh off the press this morning. A national policy review and 8 cities...
Publication 
The River Cities Project: Henderson, KY / Fall '10 
For the Fall 2010 semester of the River Cities Project, Martin Summers asked his students to focus on the granary site in Henderson, KY. Previously identified in...
Projects 
The River Cities Project: Louisville, KY 
Florian Idenburg, Jing Liu / SO — IL Now that we have entered a phase of involuntary fasting, any anxiety that the architect is destined to turn into the...
Projects, Events 
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The River Cities Project: Manhattan Redux 
Manhattan Redux Paducah,KY The Manhattan Redux studio took on the tremendous challenge of developing a one hundred and fifty year scenario plan for Kentucky's...
Projects, Events, Scorched Earth 
The River Cities Project: Louisville Water Company 
Freek Persyn, founder of 51N4E, led two workshops with University of Kentucky College of Design students to develop proposals for the Louisville Water Company...
Projects 
Cognitive Newark 
Strange Networks. As with many aspects of contemporary life, the overwhelming wealth and availability of data pertaining to the attributes and function of the...
 
Research Trip: Hackensack River Tour 
On September 30, the Crisis Fronts studio took in the intersection of ecology and infrastructure along the southern end of the Hackensack River with Hackensack...
Trips, Newark, Pratt 
Rock Bottom 
Rockford IMAGE Rockford ZONING Rockford DEMOGRAPHICS AND ENVIRONMENT Rockford INDUSTRY Student Contributors Gail Chen, Alex Gregor, Sandra...
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