Metropolitan Design Center
 Metropolitan Design Center outreach and research projects focus on the design of sustainable metropolitan landscapes and livable communities. Outreach projects provide design alternatives for affordable housing, multi-functional streets, open spaces, neighborhoods, and city districts. Current research projects focus on emerging analytics of “footprints” of transit-oriented developments, integrative intermodal design, and planning and design parameters of multifunctional urban and suburban landscapes. Across all of this work, Design Center expertise focuses on the morphologies of multimodal streets and street networks, integrative infrastructure, and hydrologically-sensitive building and landscape complexes to enhance ecosystem services and human health. Design Center
projects also focus on the media of design and the complexity involved in design communication and policy formation across scales encompassed by metropolitan issues of sustainability.
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