THE CENTER FOR THE CITY
Pictured: Gail Thomas, Ph.D., Director
From its beginning, The Dallas Institute has focused much of its work on the study of cities, beginning with the 1982 What Makes a City? conference. The effects of that conference were so profound that it became a tradition, drawing city planners, global thinkers, and local civic leaders together in conversation about cities. They have initiated a renewed hope for cities and have brought about real changes for Dallas.
Scenes from the 2003 City Hall Conference – Imagining Dallas: Gardens for the City, Gardens for the Soul
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Imagining Dallas: What Does the City Want to Be? A Celebration of Twenty Years
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ARCHITECTURE AND POETRY - 1982
James Lehrer, Christian Norberg-Schulz, Arthur Erickson, Bill Porterfield, Kathleen Raine, James Hillman, William H. Whyte, A.C. Greene, Bernd Jager, Louise Cowan, Robert Sardello, Gail Thomas
THE ECONOMICS OF TASTE - 1983
James Rouse, James Lehrer, James Hillman, William H. Whyte, Albert Murray, Louise Cowan, Donald Cowan, Lyle Novinski, Robert Sardello, Gail Thomas
WATER AND DREAMS - 1984
Dan Kiley, Kathleen Raine, William H. Whyte, Ivan Illich, Geoffrey Stanford, Edwin T. Morris, James Hillman, Alan Ward, Roy P. Harrover, William Burford, Robert Sardello, Gail Thomas,
GROWTH AND UNDERGROWTH - 1985
Robert Venturi, Ivan Illich, Robert Swann, William H. Whyte, Denise Scott Brown, Vincent Scully, Wendell Berry, Robert Sardello, Gail Thomas
MONEY, MYTH & MANA - 1986
Jane Jacobs, Lewis H. Lapham, Wendell Berry, Curtis W. Meadows, Donald Stone, Hazel Henderson, Lewis Hyde, Charles Anderson, Robert Sardello, Gail Thomas
COMMUNITY, DESIGN AND DESTINY - 1987
Yi Fu-Tuan, John B. Jackson, Henry C Beck, Jr., James Pratt, Jose Gonzales, Miha Pogacnik, Beverly Mitchell, Lynn Mims, Robert Trammell, Robert Sardello, Gail Thomas
CRISIS AND CARNIVAL - 1988
Skitch Henderson, Etheridge Knight, Enrique Pardo, James Hillman, Mary Vernon, Sandra Hughes, Mike Hickey, Curtis King, Robert Sardello, Gail Thomas
VISION AND THE SPIRIT OF PLACE - 1990
Charles W. Moore, Keith Critchlow, Beverly Mitchell, James Pratt, Michael McCarthy, Mary Vernon, Jack Miller, Gail Thomas
AMERICA OF THE IMAGINATION - 1991
Mortimer Adler, Hazel Henderson, Thomas Moore, Lewis Hyde, Albert Murray, Bernd Jager, James Hillman, Robert Trammell, Bill Burford, Frederick Turner, Robert Sardello, Gail Thomas
THE SACRED CENTER - 1993
Jane Jacobs, Christopher Alexander, Lee Cullum, Jan Hart, Daniel Kemmis, , Barbara Cassel, Susan Mead, Kent Collins, Richard Anderson, Robert Sardello, Gail Thomas
BEAUTY IN BUSINESS - 1995
Arthur Erickson, Frederick Turner, Rinaldo Brutoco, Alana Probst, Betty Sue Flowers, Tom Schieffer, Robert Sardello, Gail Thomas
OTHER COURSES AND
CONFERENCES
THE CONVIVIALITY OF THE CITY - 1981
Jacques Barzun, Billy Porterfield, James Hillman, Thomas Moore, Robert Sardello, Gail Thomas
DALLAS SPACES - HUMAN PLACES - 1985
William H. Whyte
LOOKING FOR AN AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE - 1986
Conversations with Robert A.M. Stern and Charles Moore
LOOKING FOR THE DALLAS COMMONS - 1987
William H. Whyte, Angela Denadjeiva, Ronald Fleming, Doug Salter, Gail Thomas
SACRED GEOMETRY: ARCHETYPAL PATTERNS AND THE COMING AGE - 1988
Keith Critchlow (London)
LIVING IN THE INNER CITY - 1988
Max Schmidt, Larry Fonts, Dave Fox, James Pratt, Tom Lardner, Bennett Miller, Gail Thomas
MAIN STREET - DALLAS TEXAS - 1991
William H. Whyte
COMMUNITY IN UPTOWN - 1993
Robert Shaw, Hank Rossi, Neal Sleeper, Princella Hartman, Dona Gower, Dan Russ, Gail Thomas
LIVING IN THE INNER CITY - 1995
Phillip Tabb, Rick Brettell, Patricia Meadows, Cliff Booth, Graham Greene, Kathryn Hall, Brad Goldberg, Oliver Mattingly, Gail Thomas
THE ARCHITECTURE OF SOUL - 1995
Phillip Tabb, Robert Sardello, Tony Lawlor, Gail Thomas
SACRED ORDER IN DESIGN - 1996
Phillip Tabb and Robert Armond
CAN DALLAS CITY CENTER BE OUR CITY CENTER? - 1996
Michael Greenberg, Cliff Booth, Graham Greene, Mary Ellen Degnan, Susan Mead, Gail Thomas
DALLAS URBAN VILLAGE - 1997
Andres Duany, Ray Gindroz
HUMANE ARCHITECTURE - 1997
Frank Lyons (Plymouth, England), Michael Benedickt (Austin), Fred Turner, Cherryl Peterman, Bill Sechrest, Gail Thomas
DALLAS BACK FROM THE EDGE - 1998
Roberta Brandes Gratz, Janet Cobb, Stephens Holtze, Alice Murray, Robert Shaw, John Tatum, Larry Allums, Glenn Arbery, Gail Thomas
WHAT DOES THE RIVER WANT TO BE? - 2001
Ann Breen, Robert Trammell, Rebecca Dugger, Bud Melton, Gary Lacy, Karen Walz, Steve Madison, Gail Thomas
IMAGINING DALLAS: WHAT DOES THE CITY WANT TO BE? A CELEBRATION OF 20 YEARS - 2002
Antonio DiMambro, Weiming Lu, James Pratt, Willis Winters, Larry Good, Susan Mead, Dan Wood, Gail Thomas
IMAGINING DALLAS: GARDENS FOR THE CITY; GARDENS FOR THE SOUL - 2003
Betsy Damon, Louise Cowan, Mayor Laura Miller, Raymond Nasher, Gail Thomas
Scenes from the 2001 City Hall Conference - What Does the River Want to Be?
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