Urban design involves the enhancement of a place's unique urban character through the development and management of its public spaces, including building yards, parks, plazas, and streets. The National Capital Planning Commission is developing a new urban design element for the Comprehensive Plan for the National Capital Region that will establish policies designed to make federal public spaces, campuses and buildings more livable, functional, and sustainable, and we'd like your help.
Learn more about this new initiative
Tell us what you think matters most when it comes to the design of public places »
Share your favorite and least favorite public spaces and buildings »
Sheila thinks that the design of federal buildings in the National Capital Region should be informed by permeability, street-activating and comfortable. »
Taft Bridge (Connecticut Ave) was submitted as a 'liked' example. »