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PAST URBAN DESIGN FORUMS
February 26, 2007
The
Triple Bottom Line - A Conversation with Bob Berkebile
January 17, 2008
The
Potential for Workforce Housing in Downtown Nashville
October 18, 2007
The
Sustainable City – Where Urbanism and Ecology Meet
August
16,
2007
Trees
and Urban Forestry: Best Practices in Chattanooga
June
21, 2007
Beaver
Creek Watershed - Green Infrastructure Plan
Thursday, May
17, 2007
Urban Trees: Resources
for Creating Livable and Sustainable Communities
Monday, April
16 2007
MAYORAL
CANDIDATES URBAN DESIGN FORUM
Tuesday,
February 27 2007
Angst
in Nashville: Modernism Arrives in the Hood
January
18, 2007
THE
CUMBERLAND REGION TOMORROW
QUALITY GROWTH TOOLBOX Project
Thursday, November 16
2006
THE
DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY PLAN UPDATE
For more information: http://www.nashville.gov/mpc/subarea9.htm
October 19, 2006
THE NEXT INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION:
WILLIAM McDONOUGH, MICHAEL BRAUNGART
AND THE BIRTH OF THE SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY
September
21, 2006
NEO-BOHEMIA: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City
August
17, 2006
Reforming the Arterials:
Streets that Move Cars and Create Great Places in Nashville
July
12,
2006
The
Westin Hotel Tower Proposal for Lower Broadway
June
15,
2006
A
Forum on the LOCATION, DESIGN, USE, and NEED for the Proposed New Convention
Center, Hotel and Garage
April 16, 2006
Cincinnati
Downtown: Through the Prism of Seven Projects
March
16, 2006
A Big Ass
Difference: Birmingham Urban Trends Compared to Nashville
February
16, 2006
Implementing
a Bicycle and Pedestrian Program in Nashville
January
19, 2006
Bells
Bend: A Vision for Smart Growth in Tennessee
November
17, 2005
Reconnecting
to Our River: Learning from Chattanooga
October
20, 2005
Preserving
the Recent Past
September
15, 2005
The
GSA Design Excellence Program: A New Federal Courthouse for Nashville
August
17, 2005
Signature
Tower Revised
July
21, 2005
A
Lecture by Artist Alice Aycock
June 16, 2005
Reconnecting
Nashville to the Cumberland River
May
19, 2005
Introducing
Our Sister City Belfast and the Making of PLACE
April
21, 2005
Chicago:
The Architect, the Business Man and the Plan
March
17, 2005
Leadership
in Energy and Environmental
Design: Two Nashville Case Studies
February
17, 2005
Integrating
Public Art in Nashville: A Progress Report
January
20, 2005
From
Urban Freeway to Urban Fabric
November
18, 2004
A
Vision for the Next Generation of Tall Buildings in Nashville
October
21, 2004
Paris:
Story of a City
September
16, 2004
A Lecture by Architect Billie Tsien
August
19, 2004
The
Power of Place and the Creative Class
July 15, 2004
The
Demonbreum Street Viaduct
June 17, 2004
New Digs and New Director: Introducing TK Davis
May 20, 2004
Contemporary Buildings in Historic Settings
April 15, 2004
Save Our Land, Save Our Towns
A lecture by Thomas Hylton
This lecture sponsored by the Tennessee Preservation Trust
March 18, 2004
Thermal Site: What will it be?
February 19,
2004
Public Transit: What is it? Where is it? What should it be?
January 15, 2004
Planning for the New Year
November 20,
2003
Tennessee State University: Avon Williams Campus
October 16, 2003
Edgehill Neighborhood Vision Plan
September 18, 2003
Visions for Nashville
August 21, 2003
Regional Issues for the Plan of Nashville: A Panel Discussion
Ed Cole, Chief of Environment and Planning TDOT
Mark DeKay, Associate Professor UT College of Architecture and Design
Margo Farnsworth, Cumberland River Compact
Mike Fitts, Tennessee State Architect
Bridget Jones Kelly, Executive Director Cumberland Region Tomorrow
Trip Pollard, Southern Environment Law Center
Wendy Smith, World Wildlife Fund
Kathleen Williams, President and Executive Director Tennessee Greenways
Moderated by Christine Kreyling
July 17, 2003
A Lecture by Walter Kulash
Walter Kulash is a transportation engineer based in Orlando,
Florida.
June 19, 2003
Plan of Nashville Update
May 15, 2003
Project for Public Spaces
A lecture by Fred Kent, President and Chairman of the Board, Project
for Public Spaces*
April 17, 2003
Developing a Vision Statement for the Plan of Nashville
April 9, 2003
A Lecture by Mayor Joseph P. Riley of Charleston, South Carolina*
This lecture made possible through the support of the Plan
of Nashville by the Frist Foundation.
*Contact the Civic Design Center to view a video recording
of this lecture
March 26, 2003
A Lecture by Victor Dover, Urban Designer, Coral Gables,
Florida*
This lecture made possible through the support of the
Plan of Nashville by the Frist Foundation.
*Contact the Civic Design Center to view a video recording
of this lecture
February 20, 2003
A Lecture by Nancy Graham, developer and former mayor of
West Palm Beach, Florida*
This lecture made possible through the support of the
Plan of Nashville by the Frist Foundation.
*Contact the Civic Design Center to view a video recording
of this lecture
February 13,
2003 (January Forum, rescheduled)
Community Visioning for the Edgehill Neighborhood
November 21, 2002
The Plan of Nashville Master Timeline Workshop
October 17, 2002
A New Home for the Nashville Sounds: A Panel Discussion
Presented by Gleen Yeager, General Manager of the Nashville
Sounds Professional Baseball Team and Chris Dunleavy,
Architect
Downtown Baseball Stadiums
A Panel Discussion
Janet Marie Smith, Vice President for Planning
and Development, the
Boston Redsox; Vice-President for Planning and
Development for Stuver Bros. Eccles and Rouse,
Baltimore.
Rollando Llanes, Director of Architecture for
the Corradino Group, Miami;
Planning and Design Consultant to the Florida
Marlins.
Allie Prescott, President and General Manager
of the Memphis Redbirds,
Memphis 1997-2001.
July 18, 2002
Schools for the Downtown, a Case Study of the
Two New K-5 Schools in Chattanooga
A Presentation and Discussion by
Karen Hundt, Riverfront/Downtown Design Center
Jack Murrah, Lyndhurst Foundation
Gary Waters, Hamilton County Schools
This collaborative project with the Metropolitan
Nashville Arts Commission is funded in part
by an award from the
National Endowment
for the Arts.
August 15, 2002
Vanderbilt University Landuse and Development
Plan
A Presentation by Judson Newbern
This collaborative project with the Metropolitan
Nashville Arts Commission is funded in part
by an award from the
National Endowment
for the Arts.
June 20, 2002
The East Bank of the Cumberland River
A Panel Discussion and Workshop
This collaborative project with the Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission
is funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
May 16, 2002
Parking Lot Nation, the Coming of the End of Suburbia*
A lecture given by James Howard Kunstler, author of The Geography of
Nowhere, Home from Nowhere and The City in Mind.
This collaborative project with the Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission
is funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
*Contact the Civic Design Center to view a video recording of this lecture
April
18, 2002
A Public Square for Nashville
This collaborative project with the Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission
is funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
March
21, 2002
Siting the New Federal Courthouse
A workshop
This collaborative project with the Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission
is funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
February
21, 2002
Good Design, Historic Preservation and Economic Vitality…Can
They Meet on Main Street?
A Lecture by Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, Coordinator of the National
Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative
This collaborative project with the Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission
is funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the
Arts.
January 17, 2002
Housing in the Downtown or What’s Going on Upstairs?
Presentations followed by Discussion
David Dewhirst, Developer
Buzz Goss, Goss Piercy Goss Architects
E. D. Latimer, Affordable Housing Resources
Mike Whalen, Community Development, Bank of America
Sponsored in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the
Arts
November 19, 2001
Nashville’s Neighborhoods—Past, Present, Future
A Presentation by the Nashville Civic Design Center to be Followed
by a Panel Discussion
Panelists: Gene Teselle, Betty Nixon and Won Choi
Moderated by Mark Schimmenti
October 18, 2001
What Site: The New Convention Center
A Nashville Civic Design Center Presentation followed by a Group
Discussion
September 20, 2001
Watkins College, finding a New Home for a Nashville Institution
A presentation by Samuel E. Stumpf Jr., Chair, Board of Trustees,
Watkins College and Richard L. Fulton, Board of Trustees,
Chair of the Facilities
Committee, Watkins College
July 19, 2001
Forum: Civic Space in Downtown Nashville
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