Charrettes 101: Best Practices

The Oregonian profiles Bill Lennertz and the Charette Institute's course in Portland.

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September 22, 2002, 9:00 AM PDT

"Bill Lennertz, a Portland architect, has come up with an program that he hopes will bring ordinary people into decisions about urban development more effectively.He is one of the founders, with partners Steve Coyle and Aarin Lutzenhiser of his architecture and planning firm, of a national nonprofit that provides training in how to run intensive planning workshops, called "charrettes." The National Charrette Institute aims to teach ways that residents can work side by side with developers and others to help design a development or improvement project."

Thanks to Aarin Lutzenhiser

FULL STORY: 'Charrette' sessions ease project planning

Thursday, September 19, 2002 in The Oregonian

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