hi,

I’m Peter, a city planner and urban landscape designer focused on creating ecologically self-sufficient and socially resilient communities. I am motivated by innovative approaches towards urbanism, exploring regenerative models of urban design in supporting sustainable infrastructural processes, carbon drawdown, and community care.

My interests involve building inclusive cities that can adapt to socio-ecological disturbances while strengthening community connections. In that, I am passionate about the role of biophilic, nature-based, and human-centered design in supporting greater well-being for both human and non-human life.

I am inspired to contribute to urban transformation through practice in interdisciplinary design, drawing on my background in urban studies + planning, multimedia, and research methods.

My experience includes public, nonprofit, and private sector work across cities including Memphis, TN, Pittsburgh, PA, NYC, and Ithaca, NY. I am currrenlty working as a designer at WPD in my hometown of Ithaca, while pursuing opportuites in the Greater New York City area.

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Peter develops design work informed by curiosity, research, and an interest in inventive approaches to urbanism. Portraits of the Mind, a multimedia design project incorporating LiDAR and neurofeedback, 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 district visioning in South Collinwood, Cleveland, in partnership with the Site Readiness for Good Jobs Fund. Alongside his design work, Peter uses photography and video to communicate design ideas, processes, and ways of thinking about space and place.