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Our Door Is Open to you.
The Urban Design Center’s mission is to advance the quality of Charlotte’s built environment and bring public awareness to the importance of urban design. The center reveals how design influences quality of life and economic resilience, and advocates for great public places in a livable city.
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Making People Places: Programming Five Points Plaza
We have had an eventful year at the Urban Design Center, and our most literally event-full project is Five Points Plaza in the heart of Charlotte’s Historic West End at 1803 W. Trade Street.
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A space becomes a place in Miami — the Underline
When I think about Miami, I’ll usually associate it with the bits and pieces of pop culture embedded in me from my childhood years. Due to my slightly advanced age,
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The Second Annual Urban Design Awards
On October 27th, The City of Charlotte Urban Design Center and the UNC-Charlotte School of Architecture presented the city’s second annual Urban Design Awards. Affectionally dubbed “The Urbies,” this awards program recognizes and celebrates quality urban design in Charlotte.
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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.