The Mayors’ Institute on City Design
Founded in 1986, the Mayors’ Institute is a program that prepares mayors to be the chief urban designers of their cities. This brochure presents a broad history of the Mayors’ Institute along with case studies and commentary by alumni mayors.
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The Mayor’s Institute: Excellence in City Design
James S. Russell, editor
This publication serves as an introduction to the impact of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design. This 24-page booklet features a foreword from NEA Chairman Dana Gioia, an essay from Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr., testimonials from alumni mayors, and a listing of Institute participants through 2004.
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Schools for Cities: Urban Strategies
Sharon Haar, editor
In March of 2000, the Mayors Institute convened a special session at the University of Illinois to investigate how schools can operate as catalysts for community redevelopment. This book, an outgrowth of that session and the public forum that followed it, contains essays and design projects that demonstrate the value of school-building to neighborhoods and the value of design to school-building.
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Your Town: Mississippi Delta
Shelley Mastran, editor
In addition to the Mayors’ Institute, the NEA is the principal funder of Your Town: The Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design. This popular program has convened four workshops annually since 1991 to help smaller communities preserve their character in the face of economic and social change. One such workshop took place in November, 2000 in Cleveland, Mississippi, and focused on the traditionally African-American communities of Mound Bayou, Jonestown, and Clarksdale. This booklet contains an overview of the event, relevant essays, and design case studies from two of the communities visited.
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Sprawl and Public Spaces: Redressing the Mall
David Smiley, editor
In acknowledgement of the rapidly growing number of dying and abandoned shopping centers and malls across the U.S., the NEA and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars jointly sponsored this conference in February, 2000. The resulting book contains essays by Robert Fishman, Margaret Crawford, and other leading thinkers on urban and suburban culture, as well as new shopping designs by Michael Rotondi, SHoP, and Hargreaves Associates.
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University/Community Design Partnerships
Jason Pearson, author
A significant number of NEA design grants are awarded to programs in which universities engage in community outreach, designing buildings and landscapes for and with the neighborhoods that surround them. The often compelling work of these partnerships inspired this collection of essays and projects that includes work from Design Corps, the Yale Urban Design Workshop, and Sam Mockbee’s Rural Studio.
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