Media Mentions
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From blight to beautiful: Gary releases plan to revitalize downtown
May 27, 2025
Once a bustling Midwest steel town, officials in Gary, Ind., are promising to make a comeback and redevelop the city to reverse the trend of population decline, abandoned buildings and blight that is too much a part of its 2025 landscape. Leaders in the Northwest Indiana city of fewer than 70,000 teamed up with the University of Notre Dame to create a master plan of a vibrant, attractive and walkable downtown district.
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Chicago Tribune
Notre Dame finishes blueprint for downtown Gary with preservation plans, zoning changes
May 27, 2025
The city of Gary now has a master plan for its downtown, so the time is now for developers to commit to its new vision. Mayor Eddie Melton, along with city dignitaries and representatives from the University of Notre Dame’s Housing & Community Regeneration Initiative, announced Tuesday morning that the school has finished the plan it started last August.
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Small Homes, Big Impact
April 03, 2025
For decades, the dream of owning a home here has been attainable, but as the nationwide housing challenges persist and the county continues to grow, affordability is becoming a struggle for many.
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Adjunct Assistant Professor of the Practice
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A systematic framework to reduce urban embodied carbon emissions using urban scale simulation
March 15, 2025
This study models carbon impacts across Chicago's building stock, showing that longer lifespans and renovation strategies can significantly reduce urban CO2 emissions.
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Professor, Associate Dean for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Work
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Home Energy-Efficiency Statistics
February 27, 2025
Utilities typically rank among the top recurring expenses homeowners juggle every month. Running an energy-efficient home can reduce these expenses and put more money back in your pocket.
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Professor, Associate Dean for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Work
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Donald Shoup had a major impact on cities
February 12, 2025
Donald Shoup died last Thursday at the age of 86, having made a greater impact on cities than all but a few urban planners in the last century.
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Francis and Kathleen Rooney Dean of the School of Architecture and Professor
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The New Yorker
Gary, Indiana, and the Long Shadow of U.S. Steel
February 10, 2025
U.S. Steel mines iron ore in Minnesota and sends it across Lake Superior on freighters a thousand feet long. At Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, the ships enter the Soo Locks, which provide passage to the lower Great Lakes.
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Liam O’Connor named winner of the 2025 Driehaus prize
February 07, 2025
British architect recognised for work on traditional civic buildings and war memorials
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Chicago Tribune
Winner announced for the biggest annual award for architecture
February 05, 2025
British architect Liam O’Connor is the winner of this year’s Driehaus Prize from the University of Notre Dame — the award of $200,000 is the largest cash prize in the world of architecture.
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Inside Indiana Business
Notre Dame researchers developing dashboard to help low-income households save energy
January 29, 2025
A grant from the National Science Foundation has enabled University of Notre Dame researchers to employ data and analytics to find energy cost-saving solutions and improve living conditions for low-income Americans living in older, less efficient homes.
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Professor, Associate Dean for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Work
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Inside Indiana Business
Infill housing development on the rise in South Bend
January 15, 2025
Following his career as a large-scale solar developer, Jordan Richardson, co-founder of Inner City Development, moved into real estate development.
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Chicago Tribune
‘It’s about improving’: As 2025 approaches, Gary blight elimination becomes priority
December 28, 2024
For Gary Mayor Eddie Melton, improving the city, such as through blight elimination, is a dream come true.
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A Grand Vision: The People Shaping Santa Barbara’s State Street
October 03, 2024
In the Harrison Design offices just off State Street on Haley Street, architect Anthony Grumbine assembled an Avengers-style assortment of architects, landscape architects, and designers to turn the master plan into something the public could visualize.
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Can Notre Dame’s Architecture School Help Revitalize Gary’s Historic Heart?
September 25, 2024
Gary’s downtown was once the crown jewel of Northwest Indiana, and now a partnership with the Notre Dame School of Architecture, city officials are hopeful for its return to glory.
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WNDU
A conversation with new Notre Dame President Father Robert Dowd
September 17, 2024
The sounds of hammers are ringing loud on the west side of South Bend as a major construction project is underway, and it is all to celebrate the inauguration of Notre Dame’s brand-new president, Father Robert Dowd.
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Director of Undergraduate Studies and Professor of the Practice
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South Bend Tribune
Notre Dame president 'COVID-free' at Habitat for Humanity build day in South Bend
September 17, 2024
During a Habitat for Humanity project as part of his inauguration celebration, the University of Notre Dame's new president, the Rev. Robert A. Dowd, said he was "completely COVID-free" on Tuesday, Sept. 17.
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Director of Undergraduate Studies and Professor of the Practice
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New tool analyzes embodied carbon in more than 1 million buildings
September 06, 2024
Ming Hu, the associate dean for research, scholarship, and creative work in Notre Dame‘s School of Architecture, emphasizes the need to address embodied carbon in existing buildings, urging policymakers and industry leaders to take a comprehensive approach to reducing emissions beyond just focusing on the construction of new energy-efficient buildings.
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Professor, Associate Dean for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Work
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phys.org
Researchers create new tool to analyze embodied carbon in more than 1 million buildings in Chicago
September 04, 2024
While many building codes and benchmarks have focused on constructing "greener," more energy-efficient new buildings, it is not enough to seek to reduce emissions in operations, said Ming Hu, the associate dean for research, scholarship and creative work in Notre Dame's School of Architecture.
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Professor, Associate Dean for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Work
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Notre Dame architects lay out plan to remake Gary's downtown
August 20, 2024
The University of Notre Dame School of Architecture's Housing and Community Regeneration Initiative has provided Gary residents with a preliminary look at its recommendations for remaking the city's troubled downtown.
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Chicago Tribune
Gary-Notre Dame partnership yields ideas on rethinking its downtown
August 19, 2024
Gary residents got their first taste of how the city intends to embrace the future without forgetting its heritage on Friday.
A downtown area that mixes the city's architecture with walkability and a robust nightlife are the matching orders of some 200 residents who took part in the city's charrette with the University of Notre Dame's Housing and Community Regeneration Initiative the week of August 5, said its director Marianne Cusato to at least 60 people in the Center Bank lobby Friday evening during a presentation outlining the findings.