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Nearly forty years ago civil rights champion and Executive Director of
the Urban League Whitney Young addressed the centennial convention of
the American Institute of Architects. “You are distinguished by
your thundering silence” he said of the design community’s response to
urban disintegration nationwide. “You share responsibility for the
mess we are in.” In response to this charge, a culture of outreach
and service was fostered through the creation of “design centers,” many
associated with schools of architecture. As a design center, part
of the College of Architecture and Planning’s Indianapolis Center’s
mission is to live up to Whitney Young’s challenge through
service-based learning and by facilitating effective design and planning
strategies using a community-based approach.
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