About the Plan
This
course is intended for Masters of Urban Planning, Design, and
Development (MUPDD) students in their final year of study. The goal
of the course is to enable students to apply their knowledge and
planning skills to a real-world project. Students will work in teams
on a project for a client, which in this case will be the Cleveland
City Planning Commission.
The course focus for the 2009 capstone studio class will thus be to examine foreclosure trends in the five Cleveland lakefront wards, determine strategies for improving the Cleveland Lakefront State Park and develop an expanded and updated Waterfront District Plan. The updated plan will identify opportunities to create new greenspace (including parks, recreation facilities, trail corridors and community gardens), determine strategies to improve funding, programming and ecological resources of the Cleveland Lakefront State Park and other existing and proposed greenspace along the Cleveland shoreline and determine economic development opportunities along Cleveland’s lakefront which could occur as a result of the city’s land bank program.
Class Instructors
Robert A. Simons
Professor
Ph.D. (City and Regional Planning), University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, 1990
Concentrations: Environmental real estate economics, planning
r.simons@csuohio.edu
Jim Kastelic Adjunct Professor M.A., Urban Geography, Kent State University Senior Park Planner, Cleveland Metroparks Teaching Focus: Community and Regional Planning, Resource Management
jmk@clevelandmetroparks.com
Lynn Garrity
Park Conservancy Expert
Project Manager, Trust for Public Land
Class Participants
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