Posted on April 3, 2020
In an opinion piece published this week at Common Edge, MICD Executive Director Trinity Simons writes about the ways the design community can strategize and plug into COVID-19 response and recovery efforts.Continue reading
Posted on March 19, 2020
To help cities grappling with the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, we've compiled upcoming webinars and other resources that we hope will be useful to you. Continue reading
Posted on March 12, 2020
How do you design for an uncertain future? We asked dozens of our alumni mayors and Resource Team members to reflect on what the next decade will bring for cities. Continue reading
Posted on December 4, 2014
From 1986 to 2011, we have seen code reform (yellow dots) and sustainability (green dots) themes surged in MICD case studies. A decline in economic development-related projects (red dots) during the 25-year period, however, does not necessarily mean that the issue was relegated. On the contrary, mayors and cities are now taking multi-pronged approach and addressing economic development comprehensively through a host of tools and strategies, such as policy reform, sustainability, neighborhood revitalization, mobility and transit, etc... Continue reading
Posted on December 3, 2014
After looking at the snapshot of all 951 case study projects that 898 mayors from 532 cities brought to MICD from 1986 to 2011, we now parse the observed trends by decade. When Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. returned from an inspirational study trip to Europe in 1986, he wondered how he could pass on the lessons learned about city planning and urban design to other mayors throughout the country. Mayor Riley met with the former Dean of the University of Virginia School of Architecture Jacqueline Robertson, former Design Director of the National Endowment for the Arts Adele Chatfield-Taylor... Continue reading