Publications, Talks, and Honors

Publications
"Neighborhood Design Center marks 40 years ... " by Andrew Cannarsa
The Examiner, February 20, 2008

"The Neighborhood Design Center: A Great Community Partner"
Port Towns Community Development Corporation, Winter 2008

"Rebuild, redesign and restore"
Charity Giving Guide in the Baltimore Sun, November 16, 2007

Urbanite Project: "Terra Incognita" by Zoe Charlton, Rick Delaney, Irene Poulsen, and Mark Cameron
Urbanite Magazine, March 2007

"Design Center Helps Improve Communities" by Kelly Carson
The Examiner, October 10, 2006

"Design Talents Benefit Community" by Elizabeth Sanders
Grand Rapids Business Journal Express, October 9, 2006

"Designing for the People" by Susan Hines
Landscape Architecture, June 2006

"Nurturing Everday Landscapes" by Susan Hines
Landscape Architecture, May 2006

"Taking Them to Task: Baltimore's Playground Task Force" by Malkia McLeod
P&R Magazine, April 2006

"Pro Bono Projects" by Brian Kane, ASLA
Landscape Architecture, November 2005

"The Value of Volunteers" by Jason Miller
New Towns, Fall 2005
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Talks
2007 Pennsylvania/Delaware Chapter of the ASLA Annual Meeting
May 2007

Smith College Landscape Studies Lecture Series
April 2007

Design Matters 4 - Rochester, NY
Rochester Regional Community Design Center
March 2007

Edens Lost and Found
Symposium sponsored by Philadelphia Green, Philadelphia, PA
October 2006

Fall Lecture Series - Grand Rapids, MI
Sponsored by the Grand Valley AIA
September 2006

Honors
Best Reclamation of a Vacant Lot
Baltimore City Paper, 2005

Prince George's County CDBG Best Practices Award
Prince George's County Department of Housing and Community Development, 2004
"Project by project NDC staff and volunteers are there to help groups throughout the County define their vision, build their capacity, and lay the ground for building stronger and more livable communities."

Community Design Award
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), 2001

Special Grant Award
Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland, 2001
The award recognizes NDC as an organization with “a rich thirty-year history of coordinating the volunteer services of architects and planners in neighborhoods.  It [NDC] has been the source of consistently high quality volunteer and staff leadership in designing tangible tools for improving neighborhoods.”