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ArchNet
| "ArchNet is a growing global community of scholars, students, and professionals concerned with architecture, planning, and landscape design... ArchNet seeks to enable participants to learn how to enhance the quality of the built environment in their communities; to compensate for a lack of resources at their academic institutions; to honor the rich legacy of their cultures; and to celebrate the humanistic traditions of Islam." |
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design:SD
| Design South Dakota is a new way to help rural communities create a better future by design. |
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Lawrence, KS - Form Based Code
| A week long charrette in the city of Lawrence, Kansas resulted in a new code which will provide for quality growth and protect the character of the city. One resident commented, "I think from the responses I've seen that people are warming to it. Before the charrette there was undue negative response. A lot of people don't get involved until they are mad. There's been some really promising dialogue." |
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Latino New Urbanism
| "Latino New Urbanism is a project of the Transportation & Land Use Collaborative of Southern California (TLUC), Latino New Urbanism (LNU) is a public education initiative focusing on culturally appropriate development models for the growing Latino population. Inspired by the paper Latino Lifestyle & the New Urbanism: Synergy Against Sprawl by Michael Mendez." |
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LEED for Neighborhood Development
| "The LEED for Neighborhood Development Rating System integrates the principles of smart growth, urbanism, and green building into the first national standard for neighborhood design... |
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Great City Design Teams - Minneapolis, MN
| "Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and Tom Hysell, President of the Minneapolis Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) have chosen five Minneapolis neighborhoods for some make-over design help from Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak’s Great City Design Teams..." |
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In Remembrance of Rich McLaughlin
| Rich was a leader in bringing public participation into the planning and design process through the use of charrettes and the development of his citizen visioning tool, the Neighborhood Modeling System. He was instrumental in the design of some of the most successful urban infill and new neighborhood developments in Minnesota... |
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Design Center - Davenport, IA
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Knight Program in Community Building - Charrettes
| This webpage has information on charrettes conducted by the Knight Program, through the University of Miami. |
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Nashville Charrette
| Nashville Charrette is an online discussion board and calendar focusing on charrettes and planning issues in the City of Nashville, TN |
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The Charrette Handbook
| "The Charrette Handbook is a step-by-step guide to a successful charrette. Based on the NCI Charrette Planner™ certification training curriculum developed by the National Charrette Institute, the book offers practical tips on everything from pre-charrette preparations to project implementation. With handy charts and easy-to-follow examples, the handbook is an invaluable how-to manual for anyone organizing a charrette." |
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International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism
| "INTBAU is a world wide organisation dedicated to the support of traditional building, the maintenance of local character and the creation of better places to live. We are creating an active network of individuals and institutions who design, make, maintain, study or enjoy traditional building, architecture and places." |
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Built Environment Education
| Built Environment education focuses on using the places where we live, work and play to introduce students to the institutions, economics and culture that make up our society. This often overlooked piece of social studies education can be included at all levels from Kindergarten through the University. |
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Gentilly Charrette: New Orleans, LA - Website No Longer Available
| The Gentilly community of New Orleans hels a week long charrette in April 2006 to plan for post Hurricane Katrina rebuilding. A large multi-disciplinary design team gathered input from community residents and offered action steps and plans for the redevelopment of the area. |
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Central Mount Pleasant Charrette - Mount Pleasant, SC
| Keane & Co. along with CharretteCenter Town Design developed a master plan for a new town center. The McAlister Development Company wants to change that. McAlister owns a 160 acre site only a block from Highway 17 and I-526. A part of one of the town's primary streets - Hungryneck Boulevard - will be built through the site. |  |
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Louisiana Speaks
| A collections of charrettes to plan the re-building of the Louisiana communities devestated by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. |
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National Charrette Institute (NCI) Introduction to Dynamic Planning: Half-Day Public Workshop - February 22; Miami, FL
| The first part of both the NCI Charrette Planner Certification and the NCI Public Meeting Facilitator Certification will take place in Miami, Florida on February 22. "This NCI workshop will provide a complete overview of the NCI Dynamic Planning process." |
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19th Annual Search for Shelter Design Charrette February 3-5, 2006: Minneapolis, MN
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Central Avenue Corridor Planning Project; Prince George's County, MD - Website No Longer Available
| A public design charrette was held by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC) Prince George’s County Planning Department to develop an overall planning strategy for the Central Avenue Corridor. The charrette began November 5, 2005. A Post-charrette Presentation will be held on January 6, 2006. |
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Mississippi Renewal Forum: Biloxi, MS
| After Hurricane Katrina devestated southern Mississippi, Gov. Haley Barbour enlisted the help of the Congress for New Urbanism and 100 architects and planners to help create a vision for rebuilding. |
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Downtown Catalyst Project Charrette; Ames, IA - Website No Longer Available
| CharretteCenter Town Design led a charrette to determine a catalyst project for downtown Ames, IA. The city hosted the charrette team to help them determine what the public sector could do to help spawn more private investment in the central business district. |  |
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Introducing The New Urban Guild
| The Guild LLC acts as an agent for architects who perform a number of services for developers and builders in the interest of building great places. The core Guild service is the Architectural Charrette. The three basic types of charrettes are Commercial & Civic Architectural Charrettes, Custom Architectural Charrettes, and Plan-Based Architectural Charrettes. |
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Knight Program Charrette: East Downtown, Lower Hillside and Lakefront, Duluth, MN
| A Knight Program in Community Building Charrette. 12 professional fellows, 12 students and a handful of local consultants converged on Duluth for a week long planning and design charrette. | |
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CompleteYourNeighborhood.Net Ideas Blog - Website No Longer Available
| The Complete Your Neighborhood blog is a new website, the goal being to facilitate an online discussion about what makes a complete neighborhood and the steps that we all can take to complete our own neighborhoods. The blog is open to everyone; just register for your own blog about the places you live, work and play in. Read through other peoples neighborhood profiles. | |
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Urban Design Centers
| The design of urban space makes the difference between a vibrant Main Street and a dead strip mall, and cities are finding that the cost of even a small staff devoted to the design of the public realm will have an exponentially profound effect on the success of land planning and economic development. This has lead to a rise in the number of Design Centers which work in cooperation with city planning offices and economic development corporations, often developed as a sub-office of the latter. |
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Smart Growth on the Ground Charrette - Squamish, BC
| Squamish is the second Smart Growth on the Ground partner community. Sustainable development concepts will be applied in a community facing tremendous development pressures, particularly as the eyes of the world turn in this direction as a result of the 2010 Olympics. Major events in Squamish began in Fall 2004 and will continue through 2005. |
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Laurent, SD Charrette - March 21 - 25, 2005 - Website No Longer Available
This charrette (March 21 - 25, 2005) was held to design a new walkable community geared toward people who use sign language. It was an open studio charrette and its results are available online.
www.LaurentSD.com - the official website for Laurent, SD | |
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Mixson Avenue Charrette, North Charleston, SC
| This charrette (March 2 - 9, 2005) is being held to design a new community on a 43 acre site in North Chaleston, SC. It is an open studio charrette and its results are available online at MixsonAvenue.com. (CharretteCenter Inc was involved with this project) | |
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West Palm Beach Transit-Oriented Development Charrette
| This charrette was held from January 22nd to the 28th, 2005. It was an open studio charrette and was the results are available online. The Treaure Coast Regional Planning Council, host of the charrette, also has a nice page about the charrette process. Follow the About the Charrette Process link on the page. |
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Detroit's Design Charrette Focuses on Eastern Market for 2005
| The University of Michigan TCAUP 2005 charrette focuses on the 43 acre farmer's market site, which serves as a favored site for football tailgating by Detroit Lions' fans. |
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Rockwood Country Club Charrette - Independence, MO
This four day charrette was held to plan a new residential neighborhood on an aging golf course.
November 29 - December 2, 2004 | |
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Cincinnatti Freedom Summer 2004
| An On-the-Ground Design Charrette for Social Justice |
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Advice to Help Stengthen Duluth's Neighborhoods: - Website No Longer Available
| This article by CharretteCenter Inc's Peter Musty and Jeff Schommer outlines some steps that Duluth can take to ensure strong, vibrant and livable neighborhoods as the city completes its new comprehensive plan. This article is the eighth in a year-long series coordinated by the Duluth Local Initiatives Support Corporation. |
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Charrette Connection
Part of the Center for Community Design and Preservation at the College of Environment and Design at the University of Georgia.
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Seattle Waterfront Charrettes - Seattle, WA - Website No Longer Available
| The City of Seattle held a public visioning charrette to provide "a creative opportunity for citizens to generate ideas about what the future of the Seattle's waterfront should be". The City of Seattle posted charrette documentation and results online at http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us. |
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Temple Terrace Charrettes - Temple Terrace, FL - Website No Longer Available
| The City of Temple Terrace, Florida invited all citizens to the second round of their downtown planning charrettes June 14 - 19, 2004. |
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Upper Rock Charrette - Rockville, MD
| A charrette was held May 18 - 25, 2004 to plan for a new community to be located at Shady Grove Road and Choke Cherry Roads in Rockville, MD. |
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Charrette Supplies
| What you need, from pencils to a presentation hall. |
Date: May 2004
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Visualization Tools
| There are a variety of tools that can help in the visualization of a community's future. |
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N-vision - Neighborhood Modeling System
| As part of larger neighborhood planning and urban design processes, this modeling system can become one component of an informed decision-making process. |
Date: March 2004
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Breaking the Chains
| A guide to fighting bad chain store development. |
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| A seven day Charrette in the northern California city of Chico produced the plan for a new mixed-use neighborhood. | |
Date: December 2003 / January 2004
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EDO Charrette - Albuquerque, NM - Website No Longer Available
| A website (no longer available) for a charrette held to create a community master plan for Broadway and Central in the East Downtown (EDO) area of Albuquerque. |
Date: November 2003
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Charrette Central: Charleston, SC
| Information on city driven design charrettes is available through the City of Charleston's "Charrette Central" pages at their Planning and Neighborhoods website: www.centuryfive.net. |
Date: October 2003
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Context Based Frontage Code
| New Town or Old Town... You want to implement your community vision while encouraging and guiding high quality development. The highly graphic context based frontage code guides development by descriptive parameters of what you can do - instead of what you cannot do. | |
Date: September 2003
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NCI Charrette Start Up Kit {CD}
| A great new resource, from the National Charrette Institute, to learn about Charrettes in context. It includes details about the entire process from preparation through plan implementation as well as valuable tools and techniques. |
Date: August 2003
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Introducing StreetSections.com
| CharretteCenter Inc proudly intoduces StreetSections.com, a web site for researching wonderful streets...and designing new places. | |
Date: July 2003
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Codes: Mediterranean
| Collected Research, Essays, Projects, and Visual Information by Besim S. Hakim, FAICP, AIA (Consultant in Urban Design), Albuquerque, NM |
Date: June 2003
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National Charrette Institute
| "...a new non-profit ... researching and teaching the art and science of the Charrette, and by facilitating public Charrettes for those with limited financial resources..." |
Date: May 2003
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Each month, CharretteCenter.com chooses an Article, Link or Case Study as its feature for the month. The following links is the list of features dating back to May of 2003.