Rather than simply see the porch as an element superadded to a house, it is more useful to consider its liminality and mutability in grasping the porch’s true transformative agency. A “floating signifier” that absorbs more meaning than it emits, the porch intertwined new combinations of home and economy, not unlike the American urban grid.
Cultural mappings describes the interconnectedness of landscapes, histories, and social geographies of the Arkansas Ozarks surrounding one of America’s first planned retirement‐based recreational communities.
The city and the watershed are distinct systems of flow that generate shape and structure across the landscape to maximize their intrinsic objectives. How can city form fix the watershed?
This manual is designed for those involved in urban property development, from homeowners, to institutions, developers, designers, cities, and regional authorities.
Planning leverages urban and ecological services in the porch, yard, street, and open space. Neighborhoods are developed as sub-watersheds.
This study is a rediscovery of place-making fabrics throughout Arkansas enjoyed intuitively by most people rather than interpreted syntactically.
This regional rail study is the first step in helping Northwest Arkansas envision smart growth development opportunities through context-responsive transportation planning.
This porch study explores a taxonomy of house porches, which for the most part lack an architectural pedigree.
This investigation designs the interface between the public realm and the algorithms by which the discount retail industry has become a dominant economic force.
Highway Ecologies is a participatory planning model to achieve context-sensitive highway design.
An emerging building type comprised solely of big box retail, the Vertical Power Center is unlike the suburban shopping mall and other shopping center types.
