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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 >.

It Won't Be Over Soon: How Will COVID Change the World?

  • 1.  It Won't Be Over Soon: How Will COVID Change the World?

    Posted 08-04-2020 09:57 AM

    It Won't Be Over Soon: How Will COVID Change the World? 

    The lockdown was only the first chapter in a long novel, the plot is far from over." Francesca Melandri, Italian author.
    For much of the year most everyone had believed that the virus scare was a matter of a few months and that after that, some solution would emerge allowing life to return to normal. Accordingly, protective measures were ad-hoc and little thought was given to long-term impacts. Interventions such as taped markers on grocery store floors, plastic  dividers in banks and rear door boarding on buses cropped up everywhere but were designed to be temporary.

    Will kids be the biggest victims?
    So were the relief packages. Now, that the United States has run through most of the $2.1 trillion CARES relief package the country finds itself at a new surge of the virus. Instead of a return to normal, many States now face another round of shut-downs and economic hardships. Now the head scratching has begun. What will come next, and how long will this all go on? How long can we sustain this? The short answer how long some form of COVID scare will be around varies depending whom one asks, from 1 year to several years, certainly long enough to really ponder the question of our resilience.

    Unfortunately, it is now crystal clear what some said early on: 
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    [Klaus] Philipsen FAIA
    Archplan Inc. Philipsen Architects
    Baltimore MD
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