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!
The 2024 symposium will be held in Indianapolis, IN in November. Stay tuned for dates and location. Registration will open in July.
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 >.
The Center for Communities by Design is proud to be a partner this year to an Urban Thinkers Campus as part of the World Urban Campaign led by UNHABITAT. The theme of this event series is 'Language in the City: Re-imagining cities through the lens of Language'. This initiative is led by the Association for Collaborative Design (UK), in partnership with the Community Design Agency (India), The Bio-leadership Project (UK/Spain), the Landscape Institute (UK) and AIA's Center for Communities by Design.
In today's cities, the built environment often exhibits characteristics that create disproportionate burdens for racial minorities, women, youth, and sexual and gender minorities of all ages and abilities, reinforcing existing inequities with regard to accessibility, mobility, health and safety, resilience and other areas. This reality reflects a history of city design and planning that has largely excluded and disenfranchised racial minorities, women, youth, and sexual and gender minorities. This UTC Roundtable will introduce a dialogue between practitioners on ways to conceptualize the City We Need through more inclusive design and planning lenses, as well as provide comparative case studies/experiences that demonstrate practical applications for participants. The session will include information on resources and guidance for broader community application, challenging participants to put the ideas into use in their own work.