About SiteLines Education

SiteLines Education is a non-profit research and development organization that creates educational materials, programs, and events about neighborhood planning and design.

The origin of SiteLines Education is an award-winning curriculum developed by Mary deLaittre, SiteLines Education Founder & Director, that encourages children to "see" the neighborhoods in which they live: the streets, sidewalks, buildings and parks; the materials that are used to create these features; how it functions as community space, and; how people interact with their neighborhood and each other.

More recently, SiteLines Education introduced SiteSeeing CD (community development), an innovative approach to community planning that is based on the SiteSeeing curriculum.

Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, SiteLines is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)3 organization.

Mary deLaittre, Founder & Director

Mary deLaittre has extensive experience working in city building, focusing primarily on facilitating and coordinating public-private projects. She has practiced both architecture and urban design, working primarily with neighborhoods to develop plans and programs to help them address current and future issues and needs.

Mary has been involved in design education, in a variety if capacities, over the last 10 years, including teaching Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Minnesota's College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture; founding and directing SiteLines, and developing the SiteSeeing curriculum under the name Environmental Literacy; managing the Design Institute's Twin Cities Design Celebration, a year long series of design education events; participating in the research and development of Planning to Stay, a handbook about neighborhood development; and producing "Safety and the Urban Environment," a design competition, symposium and catalog introducing students to the topic of safety and design.

Currently, along with leading SiteLines, Mary is the Founder and Principal of Groundwork, a company that helps public and private partners realize their successful city building projects through partnership building, organizational development, integrated design, implementation plans, and communication.

Mary received a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Brown University and a Masters of Architecture with a concentration in Urban Design from the University of Minnesota.

SiteLines Board of Directors

William "Billy" Weber, Chair
Center for Sustainable Building Research & the School of Architecture
University of Minnesota

Joanna "Joey" Vossen, Treasurer
Larkin Hoffman Daly & Lindgren Ltd.

Kelly Laleman, Assoc. AIA
Cuningham Group Architecture, P.A.

Jennifer Yoos, AIA, LEED AP
VJAA

Jim Lammers
Facility Planning Services, Inc.

Marilyn Porter
Porter Consulting, LLC

Krista Bergert
Community Planning & Economic Development
City of Minneapolis

Monique MacKenzie
University of Minnesota

Dana Carmichael
Dynamic Learner Consulting, Inc.

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