Visioning the suburban ecologies of northwest Arkansas.

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NL: In some cases, the local professional design community regards university-based design centers as potential competitions What is the UACDC's relationship with the local professionals? SL: Well, teaching and research hospitals don’t refrain from delivering medical services. We've enjoyed broad-based support from the professional design communities — but still, these types of skirmishes are symptomatic of a structural underdevelopment in the design profession.

Over at Places Design Observer, Nancy Levinson interviewed Stephen Luoni Director of the University of Arkansas Community Design Center. The two discuss UACDC's projects such as their Visioning Rail Transit in Northwest Arkansas: Lifestyles and Ecologies, Low Impact Development: A Design Manual for Urban, Riparian Meadows, Mounds, and Rooms: Urban Greenway or their Walmart funded Finding the Social in Big Box Retail. The feature is the first of a series of profiles of university-based design centers that Places will publish, throughout this year.

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Visioning the suburban ecologies of northwest Arkansas.