Archive for the ‘Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative’ Category
“Graphic Narrative – Thick Description Studying the City” Carmina Sanches-del-Valle of Department of Architecture Hampton University Lecture at CUDC 1309 Playhouse Square, Cleveland, Ohio April 4th, 2011… (go to article) 5pm
Terry Schwarz is the director of Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative. Persistent, large-scale population decline is a challenging issue for many cities in the U.S., particularly older industrial cities like Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, St. Louis and Pittsburgh. These cities experienced peak populations in the 1950s and have continually lost residents since then… (go to [...]
The CUDC’s Cleveland Stories: True Until Proven Otherwise project is now in full swing with one successful StorySlam event completed, and a second in the works, as well as an upcoming exhibit opening on April 1, 2011 at the Cleveland Institute of Art’s Reinberger gallery, followed by the official book release in June. We tried to create a variety [...]
Sagree Sharma will join the staff of the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative as Project Manager starting March 16. Sagree received her Master of City Planning degree from MIT in 2007. Her undergraduate education in architecture was at the Rizvi College of Architecture at University of Mumbai. In her practice Sagree focuses on design at multiple [...]
Even though making buildings is all Carolyn Isaacson wants to do, the famous architecture in and around the Windy City wasn’t enough to keep her there. Instead, she left Chicago to study at Kent State University. “Kent’s program is one of the best in the country,” said Isaacson, a sophomore architecture major and the student [...]
A little tidbit from the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative. DO YOU HAVE A CLEVELAND STORY TO TELL? Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative is organizing a StorySlam on February, 24th at the Cleveland Institute of Art’s Coventry Center to gather place-based stories to include in their upcoming journal entitled Cleveland Stories: True until proven otherwise… [...]
The CUDC’s upcoming journal will be entitled Cleveland Stories: True until proven otherwise. As the name suggests, we’re interested in exploring the connection between physical place and meaning through the creation of narratives. Following a similar format to our previous journals, we’re working with a diverse group of local and international designers, artists and writers to generate [...]
Thursday, February 17, 2011 4:00 – 6:30 pm 1717 Euclid Avenue Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs Cleveland State University… (go to article)
In case you haven’t seen this internship opportunity yet, or set it aside for later and forgot to finish your application, the deadline for the Cleveland Foundation’s 2011 summer internship program is Friday, February 4, 2011. Here’s more information on the internship… (go to article)
The Dreamer’s Lounge (a pop-up library) The Broadway Free Library, 5437 Broadway Ave. (Slavic Village neighborhood) Cleveland, OH 44127 Monday, January 17, 2011 (MLK Jr. Day) 6:00 p.m – 9:00 p.m. We’re excited to announce the upcoming Pop Up City sponsored event — The Dreamer’s Lounge. This one night only pop-up library will transform the currently [...]
I posted this rather late, as I am of the opinion that no one in Cleveland goes to anything if they have too much time (more than a week) to plan ahead. However if you come on down the charrette you may get the opportunity to work with me as I will be one of [...]
Connecting Cleveland: Beyond the Burnham Plan Tuesday, November 30th noon – 7pm Cleveland Public Library, Stokes Wing, Room 218 The Cleveland Group Plan Commission invites you to participate in a design charrette to develop a unified vision for Downtown Cleveland built around signature public spaces and the connections and opportunities that link development projects from the [...]
Thanks go out to Kent State’s University Communications and Marketing office for creating this video of our opening reception held September 15, 2010. We were glad to have Kent State president Lester Lefton, the board of trustees and so many of our friends in attendance for the event… (go to article)
Hello friends and colleagues! The Kent State Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative is currently looking to fill an Urban Designer position recently made available on our staff. The position’s responsibilities include project management, a commitment to working with community groups and an interest in Urban Design education. The candidate should hold an advanced degree in Architecture, Landscape [...]
Please join us at the CUDC this Wednesday, October 6 at 8:30am for a talk by Kent State Professor Charles Graves. Prof. Graves will discuss his ongoing research in preparation for a new undergraduate text The Urban Genome: an introduction to urban design. This book will approach its subject from a typological direction, breaking the city [...]
William McDonough, founding principal of William McDonough + Partners and author of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, will be speaking on Tuesday, October 12 beginning at 7:30pm in Cartwright Auditorium on the Kent State University main campus. A link to the event venue map is located below. Admission is free. View Location Map… (go to article)
CLEVELAND – Kent State University is celebrating the grand opening of the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CDUC) in its new location in the heart of downtown Cleveland. Kent State’s CUDC is now located 1309 Euclid Ave., Suite 200, in Cleveland, placing the collaborative within PlayhouseSquare and directly on Cleveland’s refurbished Euclid Corridor, which university officials [...]
Since cities first got big enough to require urban planning, its practitioners have focused on growth. From imperial Rome to 19th-century Paris and Chicago and up through modern-day Beijing, the duty of city planners and administrators has been to impose order as people flowed in, buildings rose up, and the city limits extended outward into [...]
Jit Kumar Gupta Director, School of Architecture Institute of Engineering and Technology Bhaddal, Punjab will be giving a lecture entitled “Chandigarh – contemporary planning challenges” at the CUDC 1309 Euclid Ave. Suite 200 Cleveland, OH 44115 Friday, Septermber 3, 2010 12pm… (go to article)
Please join us for a presentation on Chandigarh by Professor Jit Kumar Gupta, Director of the School of Architecture at the Institute of Engineering and Technology in Punjab. Professor Gupta will discuss the challenges faced by Indian urbanists and architects as they seek to adapt the city’s famous Corbusier plan to changing circumstances. This free lecture [...]


