Soul of the City is back! If you missed the kickoff event in February, then Wednesday April 25th is your next opportunity to participate in this engaging community dialogue series. This installment will follow the same interactive 'live-audience-questionnaire' format and will focus specifically on identifying special urban open spaces in our region. What do you think makes a good place to visit in our urban environment? Where are the most successful examples? Join us for this lively discussion that seeks to define where they are and what makes them great. This is the second of five planned dialogues this year which seek to bring designers and community members together to identify what qu

Where: The Crest Theater, 1013 K Street, Sacramento When: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 Time: 6:00 p.m. Tickets: $10.00 General Admission                  $5.00 for AIACV / ULI Members and Students buy tickets now Advance tickets may also be purchased at The Crest Theater. This American independent documentary frames a global discussion on the future of cities. Who is allowed to shape our cities? How do they do it? And how does the design of our cities affect our lives? The movie explores a diverse range of urban design projects in dozens of cities around the world, from massive infrastructure to temporary interventions. Featuring some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policy

Sacramento Press intern Casey Kirk saw this press release and thought it might a good story for Sacramento Press to cover. I agreed. I also want to post this heads-up to anyone who might be interested. The release itself:   “Edge effect” is a term borrowed from ecology, where it refers to activity in the areas between different land uses. Broadway exhibits a degree of diversity that is similar to nature’s edge effect. On Broadway, these characteristics add up to a high-energy center that draws people from other parts of the city as well as from adjacent neighborhoods. The question of interest from an urban design perspective is: Will future development enhance or diminish Broadway’s edge

The proposed Swanston Station Transit Village is a long-range urban design that would guide public and private improvements in the Swanston Station Transit Village Specific Plan area. Encompassing roughly a ½ mile radius around the Swanston Light Rail Station, the plan includes mixed use land that promotes a mixture of office, commercial, open space, and medium and high-density residential uses with 36 units per acre. The Long-Term Plan includes approximately 213 acres of the Swanston project area and would result in approximately 2,596 new dwelling units and 505,515 sf of new commercial space. The project could increase the population within the City by up to 6,670 residents at buildout