Lance Neckar
Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture
Office: 145N Rapson Hall
Phone: 612-625-6596
E-mail: necka001@umn.edu
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Lance Neckar is director of the Metropolitan Design Center in the College of Design, a University Fellow of the Institute on the Environment and a professor of landscape architecture. As part of the Urban Design Section of the CTS-coordinated Transportation and Regional Growth Study, Neckar investigated subdivision design approaches that can reduce or stabilize the number of vehicle miles traveled by residents. He has also conducted planning studies on light rail transit and bus transportation in the Twin Cities, and studied new ways to develop industrial and rail properties in Saint Paul. He recently completed the Synthesis report for “Moving Communities Forward: Design, Transportation and Community Enhancement,” the American Institute of Architects and FHWA-sponsored study for which he was a co-Principal Investigator with CTS director Robert Johns.
Neckar earned undergraduate degrees in History and German before going on to study urban and regional planning and landscape architecture at the University of Wisconsin, where he received an M.A.L.A. from the Department of Landscape Architecture. He later earned an M.L.A. from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, Department of Landscape Architecture.