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Dorothea Dix Park — Place, Community, Planet
The Design Imperatives conference hosted in Raleigh this September focused on challenges facing our region today and opportunities for the future regarding how we build more connected, sustainable communities.
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2nd Annual Urban Design Awards Nominations
The 2nd annual Urban Design Awards or “Urbies,” presented by the Charlotte Urban Design Center and UNC Charlotte’s School of Architecture, will take place on Oct. 27, and this year we need YOU!
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Bike OKC
At the end of March, the UDC attended the Congress for the New Urbanism in Oklahoma City. After a week of learning from and connecting with fellow urbanists, the final day was upon us.
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Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum
…is a place of terrorism transformed into a commemorative landscape that moves your heart and then your soul.
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Oklahoma City’s Wheeler District
If I were to ask you what a 90-acre former airport, the old Santa Monica pier Ferris wheel, and an Instagram-friendly sculpture had in common, you might be hard-pressed to find an answer.
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Congress for the New Urbanism CNU#31 Comes to Charlotte
he City of Charlotte and the Urban Design Center are so pleased to announce that the Congress for the New Urbanism has chosen Charlotte as the location of their next Congress — CNU31.
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Five Points Plaza — It’s Open!
Last month the City of Charlotte cut the ribbon on Five Points Plaza in the Historic West End. This public space is the first that the City has constructed in 30 years — the last was Polk Park at Trade and Tryon streets.
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Calling all Urban Designers! Come join the Urban Design Center
In working to put communities and citizens first, the City of Charlotte’s Department of Planning, Design, and Development is committed to creating great places.
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Placemaking Grants and the Creative Pool are Back!
The Urban Design Center in the city’s Planning, Design & Development department will open the application processes for both the 2022 placemaking grant program and the placemaking creative pool on Friday, Jan. 14.
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