Archives for January 2009
‘Green’ Habitat Neighborhood Garners More National Honors
22 January 2009 | Uncategorized | No Responses
The University of Arkansas Community Design Center, an outreach program of the School of Architecture, has won three national awards for a sustainable neighborhood that they designed for the Washington Co. chapter of Habitat for Humanity. (more…)
Community Design Center’s Light Rail Book Awarded NEA Funding
12 January 2009 | Uncategorized | No Responses
The University of Arkansas Community Design Center, an outreach program of the School of Architecture, makes the case for light rail – primarily in pictures – in a book to be published this spring, Visioning Rail Transit in Northwest Arkansas: Lifestyles and Ecologies. Thanks in part to a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, (more…)
2009 Honor Awards for Regional and Urban Design Focus on Mixed-Use Density
9 January 2009 | Uncategorized | No Responses
Summary: Six projects were selected for the 2009 Institute Honor Awards for Regional and Urban Design. Two plans are located in China; two in California; and one each in Illinois and Arkansas. The projects focus on mixed-use density and sustainable strategies to renew once-vibrant areas or to make way for new populations and urban development. Two projects renew defunct military bases and transform them into community treasures. (more…)