DALTX Real EstateDALTX Real EstateDALTX Real Estate
  • Home
  • Guest Post
  • Agents
  • Contact Us
  • About
  • Advertise With Us
Reading: What Can a Redeveloping Detroit Teach Us About Dallas?
Share
Font ResizerAa
DALTX Real EstateDALTX Real Estate
Font ResizerAa
  • Home
  • Guest Post
  • Agents
  • Contact Us
  • About
  • Advertise With Us
  • Home
  • Guest Post
  • Agents
  • Contact Us
  • About
  • Advertise With Us
Follow US
© DALTX. All Rights Reserved.
DALTX Real Estate > maurice cox > What Can a Redeveloping Detroit Teach Us About Dallas?
maurice cox

What Can a Redeveloping Detroit Teach Us About Dallas?

4 Min Read
SHARE

pexels-photo-702343

The 20th-century tale of Detroit is often one of woe. Auto industry job loss, economic decline, and rapid suburbanization decimated the city and left it floundering, with a population loss of 60 percent. The blight of urban decay is just one of the problems facing the area and Detroit declared bankruptcy in 2013, becoming the largest American city to ever do so. 

Screen-Shot-2018-02-16-at-11.23.04-AM
Maurice Cox

But not all is lost in Motor City as committed citizens and employees work to revitalize neighborhoods, engage residents, and redevelop the urban core, all while making sense of the new landscape. 

Nationally acclaimed community designer and leader of the public interest design movement Maurice Cox knows a lot about developing bold – yet achievable – plans that become tools for civic discourse and empowerment, embraced by diverse sectors of the community. He is the director of planning and development for the city of Detroit, speaking at the Dallas Architecture Forum lecture Feb. 21. 

“Maurice Cox has achieved a nationally acclaimed reputation as a community designer who incorporates active citizen participation into the urban design and planning process,” said Dallas Architecture Forum executive director Nate Eudaly.

Cox is widely respected for his ability to incorporate active citizen participation into the urban design and planning process. In his current position, he is in charge of the long-term vision for a redeveloped Detroit — improving Detroit’s neighborhoods, developing strategies to boost stable areas of the city with new business and residential development, and devising uses for the vast tracts of vacant lots and other city owned properties.

Cox was born and educated in New York City. He received his bachelor’s in architecture from the Cooper Union School of Architecture and was awarded the Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he has also served on the faculty.

Cox taught for Syracuse University and at the University of Virginia, which led to him serving as city council member and then mayor of the city of Charlottesville, Virginia from 1996 to 2004. Under his leadership, Charlottesville completed several urban design initiatives, including the passage of an award-winning zoning ordinance in support of mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented development; new infill residential neighborhoods and mixed-income, higher-density housing; and the design of a new, two-mile, federally funded parkway entrance into the city.

His experience merging architecture, politics and design education and his engagement of diverse sections of the community led to his being named one of “20 Masters of Design” in 2004 by Fast Company. In 2013, Cox was named one of the Most Admired Design Educators in America in the annual ranking by Design Intelligence.

Cox served as associate dean for community engagement at Tulane University’s School of Architecture and director of the Tulane City Center, a university-affiliated practice operating at the intersection of design, urban research and civic engagement throughout New Orleans. He has also served as Design Director of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

The Maurice Cox lecture will be held Wednesday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m. at The Magnolia in West Village, 3699 McKinney Ave. Reception and check-in is from 6:15 to 6:55 p.m. No reservations are needed and the event is free for Dallas Architecture Forum members. General admission is $20 and students are $5. 

 

Why Can’t Dallas Have Nice Things: Pritzker Prize Winner Arata Isozaki
365 Modern Music Offers Modern Music, Modern Architecture, Mingling Next Week
NYT Publishes Emily Summers’ Highland Park Preservation Home & Design Book!
Jon Anderson: Another Project Threatens to Kill The Dallas Skyline (Again)
This Dallas Architecture Forum Virtual Event is Designed to Inspire
TAGGED:ArchitectureDallas Architecture ForumDetroitredevelopment
Share This Article
Facebook Email Copy Link Print
Previous Article Splurge vs. Steal: Two Renovated Midcentury Modern Houses
Next Article Highland Park Colonial Revival With a Surprise at the Top
Popular News
Real Estate Broker

Kristi Davis Brings Leadership Expertise to Ebby Flower Mound/Lewisville Office

Two North Texas Counties Are Higher than National Average For Home Prices
North Texas Suburb Cracks Top Five in Money.com’s 50 Best Places to Live
Is There Still Time To Find a Vacation Rental?
Do You Need An Attorney For Your Real Estate Transaction?
about us

DaltxRealEstate.com is the largest real estate blog and the only one in North Texas.

Links

  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service
  • Contact Us
  • Paid Guest Post Submission

Categories

  • Wednesday WTF
  • East Dallas
  • Monday Morning Millionaire
  • Upon Closer Inspection

Get Involved

  • Advertise With Us
  • Write for Us: Submit Guest Post

Find Us on Socials

© DALTX. All Rights Reserved.
Welcome Back!

Sign in to your account

Username or Email Address
Password

Lost your password?