UrbanPlan workshops are highly interactive, planning simulations that allow Memphians a firsthand experience in the fundamental forces that affect urban development. UrbanPlan is a daylong simulation of a planning process involving teams that work together using legos, a site plan and a spreadsheet to respond to a fictional RFP for the neighborhood of Elmwood in the city of Yorktown. Teams must decide how dense to build out a 5 ½ block area, whether to keep or move a homeless shelter,…