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Representing the winning team at ULI/Hines' Student Urban Design Competition, Youngsoo Yang shares details about the Knot Charleston project.

A redevelopment plan for a North Charleston, South Carolina, site presented by a team of Harvard University students has taken top honors in the 21st annual ULI/Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. The winning plan, titled Knot Charleston, is a vision for the new downtown of North Charleston designed to address challenges posed by the post-COVID environment, social inequality, and climate change.

Five Harvard students recently won a competition that challenged the students to tackle complex development issues facing North Charleston.

Four teams, representing Harvard University, University of Virginia, and University of California, Berkley, have been selected as finalists in the 21st  annual ULI Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition, an event that challenges teams of graduate students to devise a comprehensive design and development plan for a real-world urban site.