Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Marianne Cusato is a designer, educator, author, and urban designer based in Greenwich Village in New York City. She was the designer of the 300-square-foot (28 m2) "Katrina Cottage," conceived in 2005 as an alternative to the FEMA emergency trailers supplied to some of the newly-homeless survivors of Hurricane Katrina along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. In 2006 Cusato entered into a licensing agreement with the Lowe's Home Centers to make the cottages available in kit form in all Lowe's stores nationwide or the plans alone online. Cusato was born in 1974 and raised in Anchorage, Alaska and in Kenai on the Cook Island side of the Kenai Peninsula. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame and has said of Notre Dame, What I learned from Notre Dame was how to learn.