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The Center for Urban and Community Design fosters a
collaborative interdisciplinary approach that supports the people, places and
processes essential for creating and sustaining family oriented and
environmentally responsible communities.
The CUCD has from its inception, at the heels of Hurricane
Andrew, sought to serve as a facilitator, bringing to bear the extensive variety
of individual knowledge and understanding required to address the multifaceted
and wide-ranging physical limitations and opportunities of South Florida. The
main conduit of the CUCD’s civic engagement is academically based community
service. The goal is to continue to support our local community, at large, so
the quality of life in Miami Dade County’s towns, cities and unincorporated
areas may further improve and consequently, all reap the benefits.
The CUCD also recognizes Miami’s cultural diversity and
that our faculty and students are a reflection of this melting pot reality.
Miami’s strategic geographic location has placed it as an educational, political
and business center, thus becoming the gateway for the Caribbean and Latin
America. The CUCD’s goal is to extend its ties to these surrounding regions and
assist faculty and students in their research and collaborations with our
neighbors.
The CUCD is committed to environmental
sustainability and seeks to offer undergraduate and graduate students a full
range of experiences with opportunities to participate directly with communities
in design-build or green architecture projects that are supportive of the New
Urbanism principles. An integrated design studio affords students the
opportunity to learn first hand of the complete building process and, cutting
across a range of social,
environmental and physical issues. The goal of the Center is to develop
international exchange programs, forge partnerships with local professional
institutions and to offer lectures that in concert would support the School’s
priorities by developing forums that more closely examine and discuss the social
and physical challenges of sustainable design in the tropics.
CONTACT INFO:
Sonia Chao,
Director (schao@miami.edu)
University of
Miami School of Architecture
Center for Urban & Community Design
Bldg. 49B, Room 101
1223 Dickinson Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146-5010
Tel.
305-284-3439
Fax. 305-284-5597
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