about.

Hi, I’m Pete. I’m an interdisciplinary designer and urban planner working across urban design, landscape, and infrastructure. My work focuses on regenerative design strategies that integrate infrastructural ecology, carbon drawdown, and community well-being.

I’m committed to developing inclusive cities that can adapt to social and ecological change while strengthening connections among diverse communities and their relationships to place and local ecologies. I’m particularly interested in how biophilic and nature-based design, including biomimicry, can support resilient urban systems and restorative cities.

I bring cross-sector experience from practice and design research in Memphis, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Paris, and New York. I approach design and planning with curiosity, research, a commitment to social justice, and an interest in inventive forms of urbanism.

SELECTED WORK

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 exhibited at the Portland Public Library in February 2025. I also led the development of a smart urban fogponics proposal for Singapore, selected as a finalist in the 2024 Cornell Digital Agriculture Hackathon.

I currently collaborate with Cornell’s tRUST-lab (Regenerating Urban Spaces + Terrain) on applied urban design research, including eco-industrial visioning and neighborhood revitalization in eastern Cleveland in partnership with the Site Readiness for Good Jobs Fund.

Alongside my design work, I use photography and video as media for communicating design ideas, community interaction, and the experiential qualities of urban life. In 2018, I founded PopExtinction6 LLC as a creative umbrella for multimedia design, new media art, and music and video production.