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The
12,000 square-foot UM Detroit Center
occupies the ground floor of Orchestra Place
on Woodward Avenue near downtown. The facility—which opened in
September 2005— provides a home for dozens
of longstanding programs and research projects
while also offering space for an increasing
number of University programs involving Detroit
citizens and organizations.
The facility will
provide offices and space for classes, meetings,
exhibitions, lectures, and collaborative work
while serving as a home base for students and
faculty working on projects in Detroit.
Read
the entire article about the detroit center
that
appeared in Portico 2005/2.
TCAUP Community Design Center
Within the UM Detroit Center, the Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning is opening a community design center. At the northern end of the facility, the college will occupy 1,000 square feet of high bay studio space. It is equipped with desks/workstations and a faculty office. Craig
Wilkins, the 2004 Sojourner Truth Professor of Urban Planning, will be director of the community workshop, which will offer low and no-cost planning and design services to community and neighborhood groups and organizations
Read the entire article about the community design center that appeared
in Portico 2005/2.
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"The University of Michigan was founded in Detroit in 1817, and we have remained committed and connected to this city. Providing a home for our many Detroit projects in the heart of the city's cultural center makes us far more visible and accessible and enables us to be a part of its revitalization. We look forward to the way this center will strengthen the partnership between UM and Detroiters."
—UM President, Mary Sue Coleman
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