2024 Planet Positive Awards > People > Student Work > Winner

Andrews and Wu’s master-plan proposal for Cathedral City in the Coachella Valley seeks to reconnect previously divided land, consolidating the land and sovereignty of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. Through careful historical and regional analysis, as well as conversations with the Agua Caliente Band, the students decided that Cathedral City would be the best site to explore a new framework of indigenous urbanism. They imagine a phased series of changes in land status that would gradually consolidate tribal land; an acknowledgment of different relationships to that land, whether it be wild or managed; a network of pathways and courtyards; and, finally, a layer of new programming that includes housing, commercial use, and new amenities like a welcome center.

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