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evolution, 2000-2010
P-REX originated in 2002 as a The Project for Reclamation Excellence, a sustained effort to understand, represent and design reclaimed environments associated with large-scale natural resource extraction. Simply referred to today as P-REX, our portfolio of research and projects includes engineered wetlands, biofuel infrastructure, Superfund sites, and exurban transportation analysis.
P-REX funding partners grew from the Tiffany & Company Foundation and United States Environmental Protection Agency to include the European Union, many individual cities, and large private corporations such as Toyota. As our research demonstrates, landscape alteration, whether from relic industrial processes or new urban and rural phenomena, is a ubiquitous and economically-driven global condition.
P-REX addresses the challenges of landscape alteration through unique trans-disciplinary collaborations with engineers, economists, ecologists, geologists, and policy experts. We research and practice through a highly targeted application of custom workflows we develop to understand and solve each particular problem. P-REX always publishes what it practices. This dual output is pre-negotiated into all of our working contracts and ensures the broadest dissemination of our discoveries and new knowledge. Our unique approach has attracted forward-looking clients such as:
Department of Urban Studies & Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Building 10-485
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307
P-REX is a project undertaken at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. P-REX is under the guidance of Alan Berger, Associate Professor of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, and founding director of P-REX in 2002.
Toyota Research Institute of North America who sought to understand, with a value-neutral investigation, how future American urbanization trends will alter our transportation needs.
French Ministries of Culture and Environment who ran an invited competition to design a future for greater metropolitan Paris that fits into a post-Kyoto Treaty worldview.
European Union/Province of Latina/Region of Calabria who need to develop landscape solutions to massive agricultural and urban pollution issues.
Kennedy School of Government/Harvard University assessing the various biases of calculation we commit as we undertake large, risky environmental manipulations like tar sand mining.
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