2024-12-24T07:57:14-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/3710446/visioning-the-suburban-ecologies-of-northwest-arkansas Nam Henderson 2011-04-21T19:55:37-04:00 >2015-02-04T21:16:44-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/b0/b0zey8k7w6zbjhdw.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>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&rsquo;t refrain from delivering medical services. We've enjoyed broad-based support from the professional design communities &mdash; but still, these types of skirmishes are symptomatic of a structural underdevelopment in the design profession.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Over at Places Design Observer, <a href="https://placesjournal.org/article/venture-design/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nancy Levinson interviewed Stephen Luoni Director of the University of Arkansas Community Design Center</a>. The two discuss UACDC's projects such as their <em>Visioning Rail Transit in Northwest Arkansas: Lifestyles and Ecologies</em>, &nbsp;<em>Low Impact Development: A Design Manual for Urban</em>, &nbsp;<em>Riparian Meadows, Mounds, and Rooms: Urban Greenway</em> &nbsp;or their Walmart funded<em>&nbsp;</em><em>Finding the Social in Big Box Retail</em>. &nbsp;The feature is the first of &nbsp;a series of profiles of university-based design centers that&nbsp;Places will publish, throughout this year.</p>