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The Regional and Urban Design Committee (RUDC) aims to improve the quality of the regional and urban environment by promoting excellence in design, planning, and public policy in the built environment. This will be achieved through its member and public education, in concert with allied community and professional groups. Join us!

2024 Symposium

The 2024 symposium will be held in Indianapolis, IN in November. Stay tuned for dates and location. Registration will open in July.

2023 RUDC Symposium

The RUDC Symposium, held in Washington, DC October 19-20, covered emerging trends, theories, and technologies that are shaping the future of regional and urban design. Watch the engaging highlight and speaker videos >.

Cities after the pandemic with a poem about balconies

  • 1.  Cities after the pandemic with a poem about balconies

    Posted 04-10-2020 11:04 AM

    After the pandemic: Is the future of cities in doubt? 

    Cities are not suitable for distancing

    Wuhan, Milan, Madrid, New York, New Delhi, these metropolises were proof that we had arrived in the age of cities in which large and dense urban conglomerations were the centers of global commerce, creativity and civilization and the place where most of the world's growing population lives.
    Urbanity of another kind: Pedestrian only in New York City
    It's undeniable these days that urbanism is one of the most important drivers of both social and economic life in the United States. Even if most people live in the suburbs, most economic innovation occurs in cities and large metropolitan areas, and these are the places that are prospering the most (William Fulton ,director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University) 
    The pandemic has turned these centers from places of attraction to places of distancing, has vacated urban life and transformed the value of connection to a deadly threat. Will there be lessons that should be applied?Will this inversion of values have a lasting impact or will cities bounce back and continue as before?  READ ALL INCLUDING A POEM ON BALCONIES BY ARCHITECT MANDY PALASIK


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    [Klaus] Philipsen FAIA
    Archplan Inc. Philipsen Architects
    Baltimore MD
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