When he's not working out of City Hall, Maurice Cox is an associate professor at the University of Virginia's School of Architecture and a founding partner of RBGC Architecture, Research & Urbanism. He's also one of the country's foremost practitioners of democratic design: That is, he understands that design's impact grows when the designer allies himself with many partners. In the poor black community of Bayview, hundreds of miles from Charlottesville, Cox helped lead a six-year, $10 million effort to rebuild the village.