Topic- Module 2 Intro (Source)

Professionals have experienced the power of charrettes. James Moore is the National Director of Community Planning and Urban Design for HDR, Incorporated. He's helped facilitate close to 100 successful charrettes around the country. Increasingly, we're recognizing that even the simplest planning projects or problems have lots and lots of rammifications. They touch many, many other things. Transportation, environmental issues, how people live, how people work, habitat issues, financial issues, and for a project of that nature, about the only way you can successfully resolve them, is through the charrette process.