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 The SmartCode Pro Sessions are designed for private and public planners, designers, attorneys and other professionals who are serious about learning physical context-based planning and implementing it through the SmartCode. The SmartCode is the innovative model design and development code released by Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company (DPZ) in 2003, after two decades of research and internationally acclaimed built results.
The SmartCode is the only unified transect-based design and development code available for all scales of planning, from the region to the community to the block and building. It keeps towns compact and rural lands open, while reforming the destructive sprawl-producing patterns of separated-use zoning. Due to the increased demand for the SmartCode and the lack of qualified calibrators, we have developed the SmartCode Pro Sessions to train a new group of experts. SmartCode Pro Sessions are held intermittently as the schedules of the Principals of NUCC allow. In addition, individuals or organizations may request private SmartCode Pro with NUCC sessions to meet their scheduling needs. Those working on the certification track may also contact SmartCode Local as their sessions are recognized for SmartCode certification credit. In the SmartCode Pro Sessions, participants will learn how to calibrate, implement and administer the SmartCode from professionals who are using it in practice around the country. Recently they have worked in fifteen damaged cities along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi. SmartCode Pro is an advanced session. It is preferred that participants have attended a SmartCode Workshop or the equivalent, to acquire a background in traditional town planning and SmartCode basics. It is required that participants have read the SmartCode & Manual to gain a theoretical understanding of the SmartCode. In each SmartCode Pro Session, Bill Wright, co-author of the SmartCode & Manual (with Andrés Duany and Sandy Sorlien), and Brian Wright, principal of Town Planning and Urban Design Collaborative (TPUDC), and several other contributors to the SmartCode & Manual, will join guest facilitators and local experts in leading participants through the customization of the SmartCode and the development of a SmartCode plan for an actual site. Facilitators are drawn only from those who have written, calibrated, and worked with the SmartCode in real, on-the-ground planning situations. Why We Do This - Conventional Zoning vs. the SmartCode The following images show typical differences in the form of development between conventional zoning (top image in each pair) and the SmartCode (bottom).
Images courtesy James Wassell, Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company
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