11.12.02

KNIGHT PROGRAM 2002 CHARRETTE WILL FOCUS ON EVERGREEN-EASTRIDGE AREA OF SAN JOSE
School of Architecture faculty, graduate students in the Suburb and Town Design Program, and Fellows associated with UM's Knight Program in Community Building will have a unique opportunity to travel to San Jose, CA to conduct a charrette - an intensive public exercise in community design - to envision ways to improve the Evergreen-Eastridge neighborhood, which soon will be served by light rail. This event will take place November 13th -18th at Eastridge Mall, with daytime and evening meetings to encourage community participation. The charrette will be led by this year's Knight Fellows - an interdisciplinary team of 12 community development professionals from around the country. The team will be headed by Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Dean of the University of Miami School of Architecture, one of the founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism and principal in the firm Duany Plater-Zyberk.