Event Details:  Good Urbanism 101: Lessons for Designing Cities
 

Course Title: Good Urbanism 101: Lessons for Designing Cities
Dates: April 28 – 30 
            May 5 – 7, 2009         
Fee: $200 per person      
Location: HOK Atlanta board room, 191 Peachtree Street, 41st floor, Atlanta, Ga. 30303
To Register: please visit the Georgia Conservancy events calendar.

Description:

Good Urbanism 101: Lessons for Designing Cities

Good Urbanism 101 is an introduction to urban design and planning for those working to make Atlanta a better city and region. Originally, a part of Georgia Tech’s TECH-2-NITE Program, Good Urbanism 101 is now sponsored by the Georgia Conservancy in partnership with urban design faculty in the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech.

This series is open to the public, including neighborhood residents, government officials, nonprofit advocacy and advisory groups, architects, landscape architects, planners, engineers, lawyers, real estate brokers and anyone interested in planning, designing and building a better Atlanta.

Session Descriptions

Session 1: Tuesday, April 28, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Cities and Good Urbanism: Some Definitions and Ten Lessons for Designing Cities
Instructor: Richard Dagenhart

Session 2: Wednesday, April 29, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Designing Cities: Plats, Plans and Subdivision
Instructors: Richard Dagenhart, Doug Allen, David Green

Session 3: Thursday, April 30, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Designing Cities: Streets - Right Ways and Wrong Ways
Instructors: Richard Dagenhart and David Green

Session 4: Tuesday, May 5, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Designing Cities: The Block – Zoning, Buildings, Parking
Instructors: Doug Allen and David Green

Session 5: Wednesday, May 6, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Designing Cities: Design Visions Versus What Gets Built
Instructors: David Green and Richard Dagenhart

Session 6: Thursday, May 7, 6:30 – 8:30 pm.
Good Urbanism – Learning for Atlanta: Roundtable
Moderators: Richard Dagenhart and David Green
Respondents: Alan Balfour, dean of the College of Architecture; Doug Allen, associate dean of the College of Architecture; Michael Dobbins, former commissioner of community development in Atlanta; and Ryan Gravel, urban design instructor at Georgia Tech and urban design with Perkins+Will, Atlanta. 

Course Instructors

Richard Dagenhart is associate professor of architecture and urban design at Georgia Tech, where he teaches urban design seminars and studios in both the Architecture and City and Regional Planning programs and heads the Master of Science-Urban Design Program. He is an architect and city planner with more than 35 years teaching, practicing and learning about urban design in the United State and around the globe.

David Green is an architect and professor of practice in the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech, teaching urban design and architecture studios while also being involved in an emerging national and international urban design practice as associate principal with Perkins+Will in Atlanta. He has been involved in all stages of urban design practice from urban design visions, neighborhood participation, zoning and subdivision processes, and building design.

Doug Allen is professor and associate dean of the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech where he teaches the most popular course in the college: The History of Urban Form. His teaching, focusing on the American city and American landscape, includes undergraduate and graduate students in architecture and city and regional planning. Prior to becoming associate dean, he maintained a landscape architecture practice, wining numerous awards in Atlanta and across the Southeast.

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