Northwest Urban Design Workshop

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Introduction
Workshop Resources
Workshop Results Poster Boards
Vision1: Stadium Drive Area
Vision 2: Midtown Area
Vision 3: Near North Area
Vision 4: Canal Area
Study Area Photos
The third urban design workshop of the Indianapolis Regional Center Plan was held November 8th through the 12th. During this time, community, business, and civic leaders, residents, design students, and local design professionals joined with nationally-recognized urban designers to help shape future development in the study area. This area includes Attucks Middle School, Methodist Hospital, Central Canal, the Indianapolis Water Company, Fall Creek Park, and Bush Stadium. Study boundaries are Meridian Street to the west, 18th Street to the north, Belmont Avenue to the west, and 10th Street, Indiana Avenue, West Street, and New York Street to the south.
 
 
What is an Urban Design Workshop?
Urban Design is a multi-disciplinary process through which solutions to complex physical development challenges are arrived at. It ties together the architectural, site, transportation, economic, and social aspects of planning. A hallmark of the process is a focus on community-based planning--involving citizens in the planning and design of their own community. The workshop involves local and national design professionals, local stakeholders, design students, and the interested public. The results are often a series of maps and sketches that convey an idea of what the area could become.
 
Relationship of the Workshops to the Plan

The urban design workshops were held as brainstorming exercises to look at parts of Downtown Indianapolis that planners saw a significant opportunity for change in the next twenty years.  The workshop images and ideas are just that--ideas.  They are not formal proposals nor are they necessarily endorsed by the plan's adoption.  They illustrate concepts and "outside-the-box" thinking and were designed to provoke discussion and to infuse new ideas into the committee process.