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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 in a new age: What policing could look like.

  • 1.  Cities in a new age: What policing could look like.

    Posted 06-15-2020 05:23 PM
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    Cities in a new age: What could better policing look like?

    Corona has turned the world upside down in less than half of a year. How will things be  next year? The shut-down of almost all travel has led to much local introspection. With many activities on hold, we  see like under a magnifying glass how our society really ticks. This gave the George Floyd death such momentum. In a series of investigations I will ask today how the US polices its communities. It has long been a topic, but it has come back with unprecedented urgency. Never before have I seen this nation look at its problems in this unflinching manner. 
    "In recognizing the humanity in our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute." (Thurgood Marshall, inscription on the steps of the Western Police Station in West Baltimore) 
    The ultimate militarization of  police: June 1 on 16th Street in DC
    In the late 1980s, when there was much talk about "community policing", I had lived only a short time in America when I looked down from the conference room an architecture office in downtown Baltimore because I heard a women screaming. She was, it turned out, berating a tow truck driver who had just hitched her car to his truck. When she kept insisting to get her car back he called "Baltimore's finest" who after some back and forth escalated the situation by laying hand on the woman, putting....

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