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 climate-responsive infrastructure, carbon drawdown, and community well-being.
He is committed to developing inclusive cities that can adapt to socio-ecological change while strengthening relationships between people, place, and living systems. Peter is particularly interested in the role of biophilic and nature-based design in supporting the well-being of both human and non-human life.
He has experience across the public, nonprofit, and private sectors, with professional work in Memphis, TN; Pittsburgh, PA; and New York City. Peter currently works as a designer at Whitham Planning Design Landscape Architecture (WPD) in his hometown of Ithaca, NY while pursuing opportunities 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.