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FACT 19: This project reverses biases towards urban culture as global culture and the rural as a resource primed for extraction proposing instead a new cultural nexus of commoning for the rural.

The Community and Regional Planning Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) is partnering with local community members on a downtown revitalization plan for Peru, Nebraska. As part of the planning process, students traveled to Peru for a community meeting and toured the area. Community members were asked to take a survey to help UNL students better understand the needs of the downtown area and community concerns.

One can search the entire earth and nowhere else in the world will one find a small, tiny insect called the Salt Creek tiger beetle but here in eastern Nebraska, more specifically in the few remnant saline marshes near Lincoln. However, a regional collaboration, involving University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers, is working to not only prevent the extinction of this rare beetle, but also its habitat and other species with the installation of an environmental monitoring system.

The College of Architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) and the Southeast Nebraska Development District (SENDD) are partnering with local community members on a downtown revitalization plan for David City. As part of the planning process, students traveled to David City for a community meeting and toured the area. David City community members were asked to take a survey to help UNL students better understand the needs of the downtown area and community concerns.

For the Arch210’s final studio project, “Center for Architectural Volumes,” students were asked to build upon previous work to create a space in Downtown Lincoln that could exhibit famous architectural volumes. In the first few weeks of the semester, students studied voids within their everyday surroundings and created abstract volumes, free of program and scale.