Final Four Student Design Teams

27 March 2003 - 5:00am

Students Teams from Harvard, MIT, Penn, and USC Face Off in Redesign of Washington's South Capitol Street in ULI design competition.

"Teams representing Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Southern California have been selected as the four finalists for the ULI (Urban Land Institute) Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. The teams are charged with the redesign of a transitional portion of South Capitol Street near the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C... The four finalists’ entries were selected from 45 submissions from 26 universities across the United States and Canada."

Source: Urban Land Institute, March 21, 2003
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I argue that the vocabulary of planning and the concepts necessary to participate in local government and planning issues need to be taught to students in K-12.