Twenty years ago, Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. awoke one morning and realized he was the chief urban designer of his city, or so the story goes. He promptly wrote a letter to Jaquelin Robertson, then Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, proposing the Mayors' Institute on City Design - a program that would bring mayors together with design and development experts to discuss the most challenging urban design projects facing their cities...
Twenty years later, in essentially the same format proposed by Mayor Riley, the Mayors' Institute is going strong. To celebrate this momentous occasion, the MICD hosted a public lecture and panel discussion at the National Building Museum on December 13th. Moderated by Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker magazine, the discussion centered around the impact of politics on city design and the future of urban development in America's cities.
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