about.
Peter is an interdisciplinary designer and urban planner working across urban design, landscape, and infrastructure. His work focuses on regenerative design strategies that integrate infrastructural ecology, carbon drawdown, and community well-being.
He is committed to developing inclusive cities that can adapt to socio-ecological disturbances while strengthening the relationships between people, place, and local environments. Peter is particularly interested in the role of biophilic and nature-based design in supporting resilient urban systems and restorative cities.
Peter brings cross-sector experience from his time in Memphis, Pittsburgh, Paris, and New York City. He currently works as a landscape designer at Whitham Planning and Design and an urban designer at Cornell’s tRUST-lab in his hometown of Ithaca, NY.
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Peter develops design work informed by curiosity + research, his social justice values, and an interest in inventive approaches to urbanism. Portraits of the Mind, a multimedia design project incorporating LiDAR, neurofeedback, and poetry was featured in Prof. Anne Weber’s Cornell Technology Innovation Grant video (2023) and presented at CELA. The Point Parkway: Marshlandscape Urbanism was selected as a Featured Project in the 2024 Envision Resilience Portland & South Portland Challenge and exhbited at Portland’s Public Library (Feb. 2025). Peter also led the development of a smart urban fogponics proposal for Singapore, a Finalist in the 2024 Cornell Digital Agriculture Hackathon.
He currently collaborates with Cornell’s tRUST-lab on applied urban design research, including eco-dustrial visioning and neighborhood revitilization in South Collinwood, Cleveland, in partnership with the Site Readiness for Good Jobs Fund. Alongside his design work, Peter enjoys photography and video as mediums for communicating design ideas (community interaction), socio-spatial processes, and the experiential qualities of urban life.