Archives for August 2008

Show, Not Tell: UACDC Wins National Honors For Place-Based Planning

The University of Arkansas Community Design Center shows cities how to plan for the future in a project for Monticello, Ark., that has won a 2008 Unbuilt Architecture Design Award sponsored by the Boston Society of Architects. Instead of dictating the usual laundry list of zoning codes, Monticello: Place-Based Planning in the Five Urbanisms of Every American Townaddresses all parts of the typical American city with a single rule and some guiding principles. (more…)