Faculty + Staff
David Pitt
Professor
- MLA, University of Massachussetts
- Ph.D, University of Arizona
David Pitt has worked with The Metropolitan Council to develop a landscape assessment process that local governments can use to facilitate smart growth in an environmentally responsible way. The assessment process developed by Pitt and his team will be used in a case study to create several development scenarios for a portion of Washington County in the east metro. This project stems directly from work Pitt and his students did in his studio and the presentations the studio made to the Metropolitan Council. Pitt and several research fellows are also developing a handbook for local officials in Minnesota’s Iron Range district to help integrate green infrastructural systems in planning and development. All the projects have developed around a GiS framework of landscape assessment that Pitt has developed.
Courses
- LA5202: Lake Itasca landscape Analysis
- LA5203: Ecological Dimensions of Space Making
- LA8203: Making Regional Landscape Space
- LA8204: Regional Landscape Space
- LA8301: Research Methods