Author: Prescott Morrill

Prescott Morrill

I am an aspiring urban designer recently graduated with master's degrees in both landscape architecture and urban and regional planning. An avid cyclist, my goal is to work in the realms of pedestrian and bicycle-oriented transportation, public open space, and community development. To this end, I'm currently working on The Starling Project along Central Corridor LRT construction (starlingproject.com), and The Bike Pasture, a sustainable bike parking solution at the U of M's College of Design.

There you have it, one line goes up, while another line goes down: network effects.

A Glimpse of Biking Network Effects

Prescott Morrill • March 8, 2013

Recently I’ve become the steward of an amazing and rich set of non-motorized transportation data through work with Bike Walk Twin Cities (BWTC), a local non-profit administering the federal Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program (NTPP), since 2007 (part of the SAFETEA_LU legislation). This $28M pilot program, awarded to 4 communities around the country and luckily our […]

Best Current Plan: Access Minneapolis Transportation Action Plan

Prescott Morrill • December 30, 2012

We are almost there, good readers; 2013, and the end of our gilded series on your opinions on where our fair cities are headed in the next year and beyond. Unfortunately, I have the task of reporting on what was least popular subject: the Best Current Plan. Woe is me. Of the 10 subjective and […]

Nicollet Again & Still; A Word with Council Member Lilligren

Prescott Morrill • August 7, 2012

This last Friday I had the pleasure and opportunity to interview Robert Lilligren, Minneapolis Ward 6 Council Member who presides over the blight known as the “Sea of Parking” and it’s associated K-Mart at the intersection of Nicollet Ave and Lake Street. As you walk into Council Member Robert Lilligren’s office, one of the first things […]

A view from a pedestrian promenade facing the open space on the Greenway, this shows where Nicollet could come across, with a potential future streetcar stop at the Greenway with vertical circulation connecting the two.

Nicollet, the Greenway and K-Mart: A Vision for Discussion

Prescott Morrill • June 25, 2012

We’ve all seen it, and by-in-large, we all loathe it: the K-Mart on Lake Street between Blaisdell and 1st Ave S. You know, that place where Minneapolis’ main street used to come through. Last spring I had the opportunity to analyze this site in-depth as my landscape architecture and urban planning capstone project. At this […]