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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 [...]
Cleveland, Ohio – A manmade marsh named Saylor Grove covers a once-empty section of Philadelphia. It’s a three-acre wetland where birds nest, streams cascade and stormwater is naturally filtered before flowing into creeks that feed the city’s drinking water system. Terry Schwarz, a local urban planner, hopes Clevelanders might imagine such a natural scene and [...]
When Werner Minshall bought the Galleria and adjacent Tower at Erieview just eight years ago, the $30 million price tag was widely viewed as a steal. After all, as recently as 1991 the 40-story tower was on the tax rolls as a $93 million property. And when it opened in 1986, with a cast of [...]
In the heart of Cleveland, Ohio, residents are prying up concrete and planting trees as part of a broad endeavor to reclaim open space in their neighborhoods. The effort, called Reimagining Cleveland, may sound like an average Earth Day celebration, but it’s also something more: a test case for a controversial new school of urban [...]
Urban farmers here have a debate on, and it goes something like this: Does the labor and resource intensive act of preparing abandoned properties for food production square with the economic realities of starting up a profit-minded business? It’s an old debate, one that’s raged for years among non- and for-profit entrepreneurs… (go to article)
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)
Cleveland, like many former manufacturing powerhouses, is pocked with vast tracts of vacant lots, empty warehouses and abandoned homes. More than 8,000 properties are slated to be cleared, and Clevelanders are developing new ways to make use of those empty lots and obsolete buildings… (go to article)
No doubt anecdotal, but I can’t help but observe a common refrain from many who grew up in Cleveland circa the 50’s thru the 70’s. And the chorus sounds something like the reference to that down-and-out uncle, saying things like “what a shame” as eyes begin descending toward the sidewalk or the floor. It can [...]
As opposition rises to a big box retail center on the former Oakwood Country Club land in South Euclid and Cleveland Heights, The News-Herald looks at the vacant retail scene in Northeast Ohio. “Ohio communities are struggling to fill big box retail stores abandoned when companies move…in some cases almost literally across the street.” One wonders if [...]
The effect the loss of big department stores and other retails has had on downtown Cleveland over the years is well documented. It seems now that a similar dilemma is making its way to the suburbs. Ohio communities are struggling to fill big box retail stores abandoned when companies move on to better retail locations, [...]
Detroit and other Rust Belt cities hoping to reverse decades of decline are finding new inspiration in unexpected places: the older industrial cities of Europe. In recent weeks, leaders from Detroit, Cleveland and other Midwest cities have traveled to Europe as part of a Cities in Transition exchange. One trip, which came after a visit to [...]
Cleveland, like many former manufacturing powerhouses, is pocked with vast tracts of vacant lots, empty warehouses and abandoned homes. More than 8,000 properties are slated to be cleared, and Clevelanders are developing new ways to make use of those empty lots and obsolete buildings… (go to article)
Cleveland’s slow but steady transformation from national leader in job loss and foreclosures to national model for urban farming took another major step forward last week in the Kinsman neighborhood. That’s where federal, state and city officials introduced the Cleveland Urban Agriculture Incubator Pilot Project. Six acres of land at East 83rd and Gill, donated [...]
It was no accident that the Reclaiming Vacant Properties conference was held in Cleveland, a city that “looked like a punch drunk fighter” after the subprime lending tsunami took its toll, Chicago journalist Alex Kotlowitz noted in his keynote address to open the second day of the conference. Kotlowitz revisited Cleveland, the focus of his New York [...]
One thousand practitioners gathered in Cleveland this week at the Reclaiming Vacant Properties conference to share what metro areas still reeling from the foreclosure crisis and the recession are doing to turn around a glut of boarded up buildings and vacated land. The latest statistics put vacated properties in the U.S. at five million acres, the [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — By next fall, a group of fledgling farmers could be harvesting the last of their crops on what today is a bleak stretch of vacant property in Cleveland’s Kinsman neighborhood. Officials from the city of Cleveland, the Ohio and U.S. Departments of Agriculture and the Ohio State University Extension Service announced a [...]
“Restoring Properties, Rebuilding Communities,” a new report from theCenter for Community Progress, cites a Cleveland-based grassroots program as an example for other cities also struggling with widespread property vacancy. The report, released at the start of last week’s national Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference in Cleveland, outlines the longstanding problem, exacerbated in recent years by foreclosures and [...]
Cleveland’s progressive stance on urban farming continues to draw positive national attention, proving that even this crisis boasts a silver lining. In her article titled “Faded glory: Suffering cities take aim at urban blight,” MSN Real Estate reporter Melinda Fulmer shines a bright light on Cleveland’s attempt to reinvent its future be reimagining its vacant property. [...]
Who says Clevelanders cannot turn another man’s junk into a treasure? Small acts of healing started on a handful of once-occupied spaces in Cleveland. Earthday Coalition joinedother small scale land restoration efforts with its Naturehood project—in 2008 a group of volunteers turned out on a cool October day and lasagna mulched a vacant lot in Tremont [...]
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 [...]
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