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  • Dorothea Dix Park — Place, Community, Planet

    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. Read more

  • 2nd Annual Urban Design Awards Nominations

    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! Read more

  • Bike OKC

    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. Read more

  • Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum

    Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum

    …is a place of terrorism transformed into a commemorative landscape that moves your heart and then your soul. Read more

  • Oklahoma City’s Wheeler District

    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. Read more

  • Congress for the New Urbanism CNU#31 Comes to Charlotte

    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. Read more