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participants. The master plan maintained our commit-
ment to the construction of places as one of our
four typologies. Neighborhoods, Centers, Districts,
and Corridors, where every area recognizes some level
of mixed-use, organized by a coherent, interconnected,
multi-modal transportation network. This includes
facilities for transit, vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians.
Our initial analysis broke the large area down into
five sub-areas:
1. The State Fair Transit Station Neighborhood;
2. The Hillsborough Street Corridor;
3. The West Raleigh Transit Station Neighborhood;
4. The Corporate District, comprising Corporate
Center Drive and the ‘159 acres’ (63.6 hectares)
a wooded site being offered for development by
the State of North Carolina;
5. The Entertainment, Sports, and Cultural (ESC)
District.
CHAPTER EIGHT
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THE CITY
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8:00
Monday
– Dec.11
Tuesday – Dec.12
Wednesday – Dec.13
Thursday – Dec.14
Breakfast
Breakfast
Breakfast
9:00 Centennial
arena authority
10:30 NC dot
Lunch
DESIGN
Lunch
DESIGN
DESIGN
DESIGN
Close-up studio
Dinner
Closing presentation
DESIGN
DESIGN
8:30 Fairgrounds and
Agricultural Complex
9:30 NC State (Surplus
Property, Carter-Finley,
Centennial Campus)
Lunch
1:00 Environmental
interest groups lunch
meeting
3:00 Developers
(Corporate Center Dr,
etc.)
5:30 Pin-up session
and project update
Dinner
7:00 Neighborhood
Associations (Westover.
Nowell Point, LincolnVille)
11:00 Team arrives and
studio set-up
12:00 Overview by
local staff during lunch
and bus tour of area
(Planning,
Transportation, Parks 
and Rec, TTA)
4:00 Market study
presentation by Karnes
Research
Dinner with Planning
Commission
Opening presentation
9:00
10:00
11:00
12:00
1:00
2:00
3:00
4:00
5:00
6:00
7:00
5:30 Pin-up session
and project update
Dinner
Figure 8.2
Charrette Schedule. Four-day charrettes are typically the minimum period we will accept to 
deal with the complexity of a community master plan. Five or six days produce better results, but at around
$15 000 to $20 000 a day, plus the costs of preparation and producing the subsequent reports and zoning
documents, some municipalities opt for the shorter period.
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Our detailed market analysis study of the area
indicated a very firm market for residential and office
space, with relatively weak expectations for retail devel-
opment. During the charrette, we examined these five
areas in detail, and formulated the master plan by the
cohesive reassembly of these distinct subareas.
THE MASTER PLAN
The reader will see from Plate 21 that working at this
smaller scale, we were able to design everything
within the study area to a hypothetical build-out.
This approach is one of our standard procedures to
investigate the best use of each parcel of land, and
to examine its full potential for development or
environmental conservation. We complement these
detailed plans with perspectives and aerial views
to explain our design concepts to professionals and
laypersons alike.