Reconnecting Planning and Design
Urban Design Issues for Planners / Planning Issues for Designers
June 2004



Project sites were selected with specific problems assigned to teams consisting of both planners and designers.
Teams were asked to develop solutions that would apply to both planning and design regulations and to develop
responses in keeping with the emphasis on a more vibrant, walkable, pedestrian and transit oriented downtown.

The workshop began with opening remarks by DCRP’s Emil Malizia, and included such topics as: Differences
in Approach: Designers and Planners and their Failure to Communicate, Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, and
Implications of Policy on the Design of Urban Open Spaces.

Sessions where led by both planners and designers, both academic and practicing.  Members included: George
Chapman, City of Raleigh; Rich Ducker, Institute of Government; Dan Douglas, Raleigh Urban Design Center;
Jeff Ulma, City of Cary; Gina Bobber, Town of Holly Springs; Roger Waldon, Town of Chapel Hill; Kimberly Brewer,
TetraTech; David Walters, UNC-Charlotte; and Achva Stein, NC State University.

Charrette sites included:
Downtown Infill
Greenfield: The Dix Campus
Urban Bypass/Strip Development on Western Avenue
Redevelopment Raleigh West Side

Sponsored by the North Carolina Chapter, American Planning Association (NC APA) and the
NC State University College of Design