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Washington, D.C. Seminar, July 9-14, 2002 (Washington, D.C.)
This seminar focused on smart growth and community building agencies,
institutions, and projects in the Washington, D.C. region. To this end, the
seminar included a series of meetings as well as tours of several of the area’s
communities and neighborhoods.
Meetings:
· The
Brookings Institute is a national think tank with a well-regarded program on
urban and metropolitan issues.
· The
Ellen Wilson Homes project is considered perhaps the finest example of a
redeveloped public housing project conducted under the HOPE VI program.
· The
Urban Institute is another leading think tank on urban issues. The seminar
the Knight Fellows attended, "Culture, Creativity and Community,"
covered arts and cultural issues related to community building.
· A
workshop on tracing plans and drawing street sections was held at
Ayers/Saint/Gross, Architects & Planners (where 2001 Knight Fellow Dhiru
Thadani is a partner).
· The
Federal Highway Administration is a key federal agency involved in all
aspects of transportation issues.
· The
D.C. Office of Planning is the agency responsible for planning for the City
of Washington and the District of Columbia. This meeting provided Fellows
with an overview of the Office’s planning efforts and highlighted
transit-oriented development work in recent years.
· Maryland’s
smart growth administrator (Jessica Cogan) gave a presentation on Maryland’s
smart growth initiatives. This is the leading smart growth program in the
nation.
Tours:
· Georgetown,
Annapolis, and D.C. neighborhoods – these are precedents for New Urbanism
and smart growth planning and design, which we toured as examples of compact,
mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented design. Annapolis also served as the precedent
for the planning and design of the Kentlands.
· King Farm and
Kentlands are New Urbanist communities and award winning examples of smart
growth and New Urbanism applied to new communities.
· Bethesda
Row is the best known redevelopment project by the Federal Realty Investment
Trust, a leader in main street-oriented mixed-use development.
· Washingtonian Center is a multi-story
"lifestyle center," a new type of shopping center that fulfills some
of the principles of smart growth and exhibits some of the shortcomings of new
types of suburban development.
· Reston
is a classic 1960s master planned community that represented cutting edge
suburban design for almost three decades. The tour focused on Reston Town
Center (the newest center with mixed-uses that is an example of New Urbanism
and smart growth), Lake Anne Village Center (the 1960s version of a town
center), and West Market (a high density residential area adjacent to the town
center).
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