New Face For an Old Broad, Broad Avenue, Memphis, TN

MRDC’s Urban Design 101 examines the transformative impact that innovative physical planning and design of the “public realm” can have on the quality of contemporary urban life. The course introduces a cross section of our region’s civic leaders, representing a range of public, private and non-profit organizations, to the basic concepts, vocabulary, and techniques of urban design as reflected in a variety of contemporary place-making initiatives in Memphis and across the country.

Urban Design 101 has been created to introduce local leaders to emerging design concepts that are guiding our nation’s most exciting downtown development, neighborhood stabilization, waterfront revitalization, new town planning, public parks, historic preservation and mass transit projects.

UD101 is an 10 week course held Thursday evenings from 5:00pm to 7:00pm, beginning March 17th, 2011 and ending May 19, 2011.

[Click here to download a course syllabus]

Click below for archived presentations

[March 17, 2011- Frank Ricks, AIA-slide presentation]

[March 24, 2011- Frank Ricks, AIA-slide presentation]

[March 31, 2011- Michael Oakes, PE-slide presentation]

[April 7, 2011- Laura Saija-slide presentation]

[April 14, 2011- John Dudas-slide presentation]

[April 14, 2011- Josh Whitehead-slide presentation]

[April 14, 2011- Verna Hawkins-Lambert-slide presentation]

[April 14, 2011- Andy Kitsinger, AIA-slide presentation]

[April 21, 2011- John Weeden-slide presentation]

[April 28, 2011- Curtis Thomas-slide presentation]

[April 28, 2011- Josephine Alexander-slide presentation]

[May 5, 2011- Josh Whitehead-slide presentation]

[May 12, 2011- Nancy Jane Baker-slide presentation]

[May 19, 2011- Shelly Johnstone, AICP-slide presentation]

[May 19, 2011- Syd Lerner-slide presentation]