The Team

The McKinley Park Development Council (MPDC) is a non-partisan group of McKinley Park residents, teachers, and business owners working to collectively foster economic, cultural and social development through the connection of residents, institutions and enterprises for the benefit of the McKinley Park neighborhood.

The Master of City Design (MCD) program, housed within the College of Urban Planning and Policy (CUPPA), teaches how to plan for designing great cities via diligent civic improvements at the intermediate urban scale. Studios are co-taught by core program faculty working closely with leading urban designers and professional practitioners. This plan was co-produced by the 2021-2022 MCD cohort + five MUPP (Master of Urban Planning and Policy) students supervised by MCD faculty Drs. April Jackson and Sanjeev Vidyarthi and four team members from the international consulting firm Design Workshop: Manisha Kaul, Sara Egan, Chris Freda, and Luke Mich.

Design Workshop is an international design studio working across the fields of landscape architecture, urban design, planning, economics and engagement. Design Workshop led the formal Charrette process in McKinley Park and, under their mentorship, students learned how to design and implement purposeful community engagement strategies.

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT

Process and Techniques

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The team at UIC also benefitted from the expertise of leading designers, practitioners, and researchers, who visited for guest lectures.