This website, and the materials contained within it, are the outgrowth of a graduate course intended for Master of Urban Planning, Design, and Development students in their last year of study. The goal of the course was not to impart any new planning tools (with a few exceptions where gaps existed), but to provide students with an opportunity to work on a synthesis of their knowledge through an application of their planning skills to an actual project in a studio environment. The class focused on various aspects of Burke Lakefront Airport, on the city of Cleveland's waterfront. The class met with the "client", the Cleveland City Planning Commission, early in the semester.

Guest lecturers included CSU faculty and outside planners and practitioners. Students were assigned to groups, and they also carried out specific individual tasks over the semester. Robert Simons, who taught the course, acted as project coordinator. The course was held in a semi-dedicated conference room where we stored materials, used computers on the college network, and held group meetings and work sessions.

Course Requirements and Grading

Two individual assignments (reports) 40 %
Group assignment (report) 30 %
Final presentation 20 %
Class Participation 10 %
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TOTAL 100 %

Guest Lecturers

Khalid Bahhur, Commissioner, Burke Lakefront Airport

David Beach, Director, EcoCity Cleveland

Debbie Berry, Cleveland City Planning Commission

Thomas Bier, Director, Center for Housing Research & Policy, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs

Todd Davis, President, Hemisphere Development

Ruth Durack, AICP, Director, Urban Design Center of Northeast Ohio

Theodore J. Esborn, Shareholder, McDonald Hopkins Co., LPA

Craig Hebebrand, PE, Project Manager, Ohio Department of Transportation (District 12)

Kathryn W. Hexter, Forum Director, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs

James M. Kastelic, Cleveland Metroparks

Sanda Kaufman, Professor, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs

Wendy A. Kellogg, Associate Professor, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs

Norman Krumholz, Professor, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs

Brian A. Mikelbank, Assistant Professor, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs

Steve Nagy, PB Aviation

Chris Ronayne, Director, Cleveland City Planning Commission

Dana Ryan, Chief Planning Officer, Cleveland Hopkins International Airport

Paul Volpe, AIA, City Architecture