Final review jurors Eric Mumford (Washington University), Antonio Petrov (UTSA), and Judith De Jong (UIC) reflect on the two-day long final review, which featured dozens of compelling student proposals from MUD students. Image: Ian Caine
Image: Ian Caine
Ian Caine was visiting faculty in urban design at Washington University during the 2018 spring semester. Caine and Washington colleague Pablo Moyano worked with second semester Master of Urban Design students to generate large-scale proposals for the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex, the fourth largest metropolitan area in the United States. Dallas and Fort Worth are the sixth and seventh fastest growing cities in the U.S.; together, they expect to achieve a regional population of 10.5 million by the year 2040 (U.S. Census/Dallas Chamber of Commerce).
The students worked on sites representing a cross-section of the DFW landscape, including locations in the historic downtown, defined by the city’s initial nineteenth century infrastructure; the inner-ring suburbs, which emerged with the advent of mid-century ring-roads; and at the metropolitan periphery, where independent “edge” cities continue to form. In each case, students envisioned redevelopment scenarios for multiple urban typologies, each with the potential to introduce programmatic complexity, residential density, and new civic space to the rapidly expanding DFW Metroplex.