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For more than three decades, the Yale School of Architecture’s award-winning Urban Design Workshop has used design to bring together communities around constructive, shared visions for the future of their streets, public spaces, neighborhoods, and towns

Part design atelier and part think tank, at the Workshop, faculty, students, and fellows collaborate on projects with community-based clients, bringing a unique combination of tools and methods to their work including engagement, collaboration, research, design, visualization, and storytelling.

The Workshop has both led and supported a variety of project types, from comprehensive plans, economic development strategies, and community visions, to the design of public spaces, streetscapes and individual community buildings. Clients for these projects have included small towns, city neighborhoods, planning and economic development departments, Chambers of Commerce, community development corporations, citizen groups, private developers, and other groups.

In all its work, the Workshop is committed to inclusive, community-based processes, grounded in broad citizen participation and a vision of design as a tool for community organizing, empowerment, and capacity-building. Typical projects include design charrettes, focus groups and town meetings, as well as more conventional means of program and project development.

The Workshop maintains a 2,000 SF off-campus design studio on Chapel Street in New Haven’s Dwight neighborhood, two blocks from the School of Architecture, which includes meeting space, archives, and workstations. It is also home to the Plattus Urban Studies Library and Map Collection.

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