By Story Bellows
January 31, 2011

The first-ever National Mayors Summit on City Design was announced at the Winter Meeting. Conference of Mayors CEO and Executive Director Tom Cochran, whose comments preceded a video presentation about the event, announced the summit, which will be held in Chicago April 27-29. National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman also discussed the summit during his remarks to the mayors.

The National Mayors Summit on City Design will celebrate 25 years of the Mayors' Institute on City Design (MICD), honor Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley's design legacy, and, most significantly, promote the importance of design excellence in our urban environments and better understand the impediments to it.

This summit is a program of the MICD. It will bring together more than 100 mayoral alumni of the MICD as well as mayors who have not yet participated in MICD, but who are interested in advancing the cause of design in America's cities, with a select group of past MICD resource team members and individuals who lead and fund significant initiatives related to the built environment in the United States.

Mayors can expect to receive more information regarding the summit starting in early February.

MICD is a National Endowment for the Arts leadership initiative in partnership with the American Architectural Foundation and The United States Conference of Mayors. For more information, contact MICD Director Story Bellow, at 202.463.1390 or send e-mail to sbellows@micd.org.