The Plan of Nashville: Avenues to a Great City - Celebrating Five Years

October 8, 2009 - January 10, 2010
Downtown Nashville Public Library, 
615 Church Street
Nashville TN, 37219

This exhibit chronicles the creation of The Plan of Nashville, a community-based, fifty-year vision of how the urban core of Nashville should look and work in the future. The Plan, completed in 2004, was conceived and orchestrated by the Nashville Civic Design Center, a non-profit organization committed to urban design and fostering public participation in the design process.

The visioning process that created The Plan involved more than 800 people in 50 community meetings that took place over two and a half years.  The Plan of Nashville: Avenues to a Great City book was published by Vanderbilt University Press in 2005. 

The exhibit features more than 100 original drawings, chronicling Nashville’s historic development, plan’s vision for the future, as well as the work the NCDC has done in the past five years since the Plan’s release. This is the first time these drawings have collectively appeared on display in Nashville.

University of Tennessee Student Projects on exhibit at the Nashville Civic Design Center

January 5 – February 28, 2010
Nashville Civic Design Center
138 Second Avenue North
Nashville TN, 37201

Under the direction of University of Tennessee professor T. K. Davis, eleven graduate students at the University of Tennessee College of Architecture and Design recently developed urban design plans for a portion of the Arts Center Redevelopment District, as designated by the MDHA. In cooperation with the NCDC, these hypothetical projects allow the University’s faculty and students to identify issues and contribute ideas to Nashville’s on-going urban design discussion.

The Arts Redevelopment District is bounded by Eighth Avenue to the east, the CSX railroad mainline to the west, and Broadway to the north, but excludes the block containing the U.S. Courthouse.  This portion of the SoBro neighborhood includes such historical, cultural and commercial assets as the Wyndham Union Station Hotel, The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Cummins Station, the Landport, the Cokesbury publishing facility, and The Cannery.  It is immediately adjacent to the proposed Music City Center along Eighth Avenue, and will benefit from the proposed extension of the Korean Veterans Boulevard and new civic space at the intersection of Eighth Avenue and Lafayette.