DURHAM AREA DESIGNERS: Urban Design Workshops

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The mission of the Durham Area Designers, the DADs is TO facilitate good urban design.

We OPERATE INSIDE the space between the citizen and the various agencies of local and federal government to effect better cities and public spaces.

We are trained as architects, landscape architects, designers, planners, developers and community advocates.

We are united in our willingness to use the tools of our trades under a nonprofit umbrella for the greater common good.

Projects come to us!

We discern the bigger issues in each individual case, hold community-wide workshops to hear the concerns of the participants, and together put forth a solution.

A SAFE & walkable community of gathering spaces with a diversity of housing types

sustainable & compact lively town centers

WITH many and safe transit connections

mixed uses in close proximity, diverse housing choices

compact & mixed-use urban form, diversity of uses WITH a network of pedestrian and bicycle paths

EMPLOY good landscaping & unique landmarks

and PRESERVE Local character

clear gateways & edges & pedestrian-scale buildings

environmental building design & smart growth development

DAD acts as an antidote to the separate-use zoning code and the dominance of automobile transportation that haS contributed to the erosion of THE citY as a desirable place to live.

Examples of the city at a smaller scale.