South Urban Design Workshop

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Introduction
Workshop Resources
Workshop Results Poster Boards
Vision1: Urban Corporate Campus
Vision 2: Mixed Use Neighborhood
Vision 3: Futures
Analysis
The Indianapolis South UDAT was a five-day community workshop in which community business and civic leaders, area residents, design students, local design professionals, and nationally-recognized urban designers came together to help shape the future development of a study area South of Downtown. The process began with a Town Meeting Thursday, June 14th, 2001 and concluded with a public Presentation of Findings on Monday, June 18th. The workshop studio was open to the public at the Regional Center Plan office.

Three "visions" of the Southside area were developed: an urban corporate campus, a mixed-use neighborhood, and a 'futures' research, technology, and demonstration district. Each of these visions is presented here.
 
 
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.