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The Center For The City

AN INVITATION TO CIVIC RENEWAL

The work of civic leadership begins not in power, but in presence. It begins in the ability to listen deeply, to see clearly, and to act with courage in the face of complexity. In every generation, the city asks now questions-and in every generation, there must be those willing to answer.

The Center for Civic Leadership of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture at SMU invites those who love their city, who honor its history, and who dare to imagine its future. It calls forth students, teachers, neighbors, and leaders to join in a shared endeavor: the renewal of civic life through beauty, wisdom, and public purpose.

Let this be not only a center of learning, but a center of becoming. A place where the next story of Dallas-and of democracy -is written with clarity, character, and care,

Dallas Institute Awards for Urban Design

1991 Dallas Urban Design Award
(City of Dallas Urban Design Advisory Committee)
Dallas Visions for Community: Towards a 21st Century Design

1993 AIA Dallas Honor Award
Dallas Visions for Community: Towards a 21st Century Design

1995 Texas Society of Architects,
Citation of Honor
"In Recognition of Significant Achievements That Have Enhanced the Causes of the Architectural Profession in Texas"

1994 Dallas Urban Design Award for Pegasus Plaza (City of Dallas Urban Design Advisory Committee) 1995 Dallas Urban Design Award
for Main Street Improvements (Griffin Street to Harwood Street)
(City of Dallas Urban Design Advisory Committee)

"WHAT MAKES A CITY?" CONFERENCES, 1982-2016

1981 The Conviviality of the City: Jacques Barzun

1982 Dallas Spaces-Human Places: William H. Whyte

1982 Architecture and Poctry: William H. Whyte

1983 The Economics of Taste: James Rouse, Jim Lehrer

1984 Water and Dreams: Kathleen Raine, Dan Kiley

1985 Growth and Undergrowth: Robert Venturi

1986 Money, Myth, and Manna: Jane Jacobs

1986 Looking for an American Architecture: Robert Stem

1987 Community, Design, and Destiny: Yi Fu-Tuan

1987 Looking for the Dallas Commons: William H. Whyte

1988 Crisis and Camival: James Hillman, Mary Vernon

1988 Sacred Geometry: Keith Critchlow

1988 Living in the Inner City: Dave Fox, Bennett Miller

1989 Vision and the Spirit of Place: Charles W. Moore

1990 America of the Imagination: Mortimer Adler

1991 Main Street, Dallas, Texas: William H. Whyte

1993 The Sacred Center: Jane Jacobs, Lee Cullum

1993 Community in Uptown: Robert Shaw, Neal Sleeper

1995 Beauty in Business: Arthur Erickson

1995 Living in the Inner City: Rick Brettell

1995 The Architecture of Soul: Phillip Tabb

1996 Sacred Order in Design: Arthur Armond

1996 Our City Center: Michael Greenberg, Susan Mead

1997 Dallas Urban Village: Andres Duany, Ray Gindroz

1997 Humane Architecture: Frank Lyons, Fred Tumer

1998 Back from the Edge: Stephens Holze, Alice Murray

2001 What Does the River Want to Be?: Ann Breen

2002 Imagining Dallas: What Does the City Want to Be? Antonio Di Lambro, Weiming Lu

2003 Gardens for the City, Gardens for the Soul: Alex Kreiger

2004 Imagining Dallas: Imagining Water: John Todd, William Marks

2007 Designing the Trinity: Ignacio Bunster-Ossa, John Todd, Enrique Norten

2010 21st Century City: Joel Kotkin, Peter Harnik, Ignacio Bunster-Ossa, Mayor Tom Leppert

2011 Longing for Beauty, 30th Anniversary Celebration: Larry Beasley, Richard Brettell, Mary McAllester Jones, Edward K. Kaplan, Ibrahim Karim, Thomas Moore, Peter Walker

2013 The Connected City Design Challenge in collaboration with Dallas City Design Studio and The Trinity Trust: Richardo Bonfil Taller (Barcelona); OMA+AMO (New York); Stoss + SHoP (Boston)

2014 Character and Calling: What Does Dallas Want to Be?: Vishaan Chakrabarti; Weiming Lu, Mayor Mike Rawlings.

2016 The Trinity, Nature and Public Space: Michael Van Valkenburgh, Matthew Urbanski