Citation Award.[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PROJECT: MacArthur Park District Master Plan FIRM: University of Arkansas The University of Arkansas strives to be known as a "nationally competitive, student-centered research university serving Arkansas and the world." The school recently completed its "Campaign for the 21st Century," in which the university raised more than $1 billion for the school, used Community Design Center, Conway + Schulte Architects PA LOCATION: Little Rock The master plan for this 2-square-mile downtown district focuses on revitalization re·vi·tal·ize tr.v. re·vi·tal·ized, re·vi·tal·iz·ing, re·vi·tal·iz·es To impart new life or vigor to: plans to revitalize inner-city neighborhoods; tried to revitalize a flagging economy. of its historic urban park as an anchor to a larger urban landscape network. As do waterfronts and transit stops, parks leverage value in urban areas. While much recent attention has been given to the signature mega-park, the value of the small-scale neighborhood park in reinventing the city has been overlooked. Once connecting neighborhoods of differing character, and sponsoring more than 80 residential structures along its edges, the historic MacArthur Park at the edge of downtown Little Rock is underused as an urban neighborhood asset. Now this moribund moribund /mor·i·bund/ (mor´i-bund) in a dying state. mor·i·bund n. At the point of death; dying. mor 40-acre municipal park is left with only 16 residential structures along its frontage. The planning concept optimizes the park's economic, environmental and social potential through improvements to district infrastructure that enhance ecological and urban services. This counters the ongoing threat to the MacArthur Park District's irreplaceable legacy: incompatible low-density, suburban-type development that fails to define street edges and is inherently incompatible with the city. The urban landscape network connects proposed tree-lined streets, boulevards, neighborhood pocket parks, recreation facilities, plazas and streetcar streetcar, small, self-propelled railroad car, similar to the type used in rapid-transit systems, that operates on tracks running through city streets and is used to carry passengers. transit infrastructure in an identifiable district that overcomes the divisive impact of surrounding interstate highways. Owner/Client: City of Little Rock, Parks & Recreation Department, Truman Totefree, Director; Downtown Little Rock Partnership, Sharon Priest, Executive Director Project Team: Stephen Luoni, Assoc. AIA AIA - Application Integration Architecture ; Katie Breshears, AIA; Cade Jacobs, Assoc. AIA; Jeffrey Huber, Assoc. AIA, Tim Schmidt Tim Schmidt (born December 26, 1986) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. He was recruited as the number 59 draft pick (traded by Adelaide for Scott Stevens and pick No. 31 (Joshua Krueger)) in the 2003 AFL Draft from West Adelaide. , Bartholomew Kline, Hamoda Youssef, Eman Abdelsabour, Bill Conway, Marcy Schulte, Mary Springer springer a North American term commonly used to describe heifers close to term with their first calf. , Shengyin Xu Landscape Architect: Oslund & Associates Consultants: McClelland Consulting Engineers Inc., Donjek Photographer: University of Arkansas Community Design Center |
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