5D: Adding 3 Dimensions to Downtown Detroit

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Taubman College at the University of Michigan has focused its annual urban design workshop and charrettes on downtown and greater Detroit over many years. The effort of the professors, students and national professionals brought to bear on the one square-mile heart of downtown Detroit during 2006 and culminating in January of 2007 at the four-day design workshop was extra-ordinary in its scope and comprehensiveness.

The design workshop was informed by in-depth market research, conducted by The Brookings Institution, Social Compact, Katherine Beebe & Associates and graduate students of the University, which added immeasurably to the immediacy and reality of the urban design work undertaken in January. The research gave the designers the product program for the next five years that they could place on the ground, integrating with recently completed, proposed and under-construction projects and programs. It was encouraging to see the 20-year urban design recommendations, looking at the possible mid-term future, building on current and known future projects and programs.

Workshop Organizers: Eric Dueweke and Jennifer Austin

Design: Christian Unverzagt with Brian Leech at M1/dtw