{"id":13073,"date":"2018-06-11T11:56:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T15:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archdesign.utk.edu\/?p=13073"},"modified":"2025-01-30T11:19:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T16:19:32","slug":"davis-uli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archdesign.utk.edu\/davis-uli\/","title":{"rendered":"School of Architecture Professor Honored as Founding Member of Urban Land Institute in Nashville"},"content":{"rendered":"
School of Architecture Professor Thomas K. Davis was honored as one of the three founding members of the Urban Land Institute Nashville<\/a> during the institute’s 10th anniversary celebration in May.<\/p>\n Urban Land Institute is an international organization that \u201cprovides leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide,\u201d according to ULI Nashville’s website.<\/p>\n The celebration included the Excellence in Development Awards, which honored Davis as well as two other founding members, alumnus Hunter Gee (B.ARCH \u201994), a principal of Smith Gee Studio, and Bert Mathews, a distinguished Nashville developer.<\/p>\n Ten years ago, when Davis served as Design Director of the Nashville Civic Design Center<\/a>, Gee, Mathews and Davis worked together to establish the Nashville District Council. \u201c[Establishment of the council] was an idea long overdue and much needed,\u201d said Davis. \u201cWe were confident that it would be a complementary relationship to NCDC.\u201d<\/p>\n Now, a decade later, both NCDC<\/a> and ULI Nashville<\/a> are thriving and partnering on many events. In April 2019, the Nashville District Council will host approximately 4,000 leading members for the ULI Spring ¿ì»îÊÓƵing<\/a>. \u201cBeing selected as the host city is a distinct honor. [We\u2019ll have a] chance to show off the city and the organization,\u201d explained Davis. \u201cThis will be a wonderful opportunity for all members to get engaged [in our work].\u201d<\/p>\n Other recent accomplishments of ULI Nashville include Gear Up 2020<\/a>, the Building Healthy Places<\/a> initiative, and the Civic Leadership Forum<\/a>. In addition, ULI has established a Young Leaders mentor program<\/a> and a Women\u2019s Leadership Initiative.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" School of Architecture Professor Thomas K. Davis was honored as one of the three founding members of the Urban Land Institute Nashville during the institute’s 10th anniversary celebration in May. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":13074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"passster_activate_protection":false,"passster_protect_child_pages":"","passster_protection_type":"password","passster_password":"","passster_activate_overwrite_defaults":"","passster_headline":"","passster_instruction":"","passster_placeholder":"","passster_button":"","passster_id":"","passster_activate_misc_settings":"","passster_redirect_url":"","passster_hide":"no","passster_area_shortcode":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58,21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-davis-tk","category-ncdc","category-news","category-school-of-architecture"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n