Archive for the 'Blog on the City' Category
“However, what happens if no one comes to the parade? What if very little people actually spend a half-hour of their holiday participating in—just merely watching, mind you–the Memorial Day Parade? This is what occurred in Parma yesterday. Parma is a city of, according to the US Census Bureau, around 80,000 people. Approximately 9,300 veterans [...]
“While many of us play within the esotericism of current architectural and urban thought, Sinclair and his organization Architecture for Humanity acts, facilitates, and builds hundreds of buildings around the world, influencing thousands of people on many continents. Sinclair truly builds for the masses, all by utilizing decentralized and open networks of emerging global architectural [...]
“Carolyn Strauss, director of SlowLAB, a design think tank based in New York and Amsterdam, presented her work and thoughts to a small audience at the Idea Center on April 22. Her lecture was the second in the current Talalay Lecture Series “The New Face of Architecture” sponsored by the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art [...]
“Parma’s urban concerns have snagged the attention of the American Institute of Architects.
The city will host a team of sustainability experts, designers, and planners who will conduct a study on Cleveland’s most populous suburb.
See the story here…” (go to article)
“If one was to exhibit urban design speculations about the storied suburb of Parma, Ohio, where would that be? Of course, the exhibtion would be hung in Parmatown Mall.
Work from Kent State’s CUDC Fall 2007 Urban Design Studio is now on display in a vacant storefront in the Mall. The student work considered a Parma [...]
“Cuyahoga County has lost more people (97,887) in the last seven years than any other county in the country, except for Orleans Parish (New Orleans), which we all know was related to Hurricane Katrina.
How and why is this happening? We have some of the country’s leading arts and cultural institutions, as well as leading academic [...]
“The placement of each building or buildings within the downtown context will impact how the city is used, how the city is experienced, and how the city will literally wear away or strengthen. The investment made in the near future will alter the dynamics of our downtown core for decades to come. The ramifications of [...]
“Other ‘details’ emerge after something like the recent blizzard, that exhibit a disregard for the city and the people who use it everyday. These ‘details’ are not design related, yet testify to the lack of care for the city. Namely, along Euclid Avenue, the phenomenom of un-shoveled and icy city sidewalks and public spaces in [...]
“BOTC is usually optomisitc about our fair city, despite its many faults.
However, this morning, the literal belly button of Cleveland burst and then caved-in.
A water main break at the heart of Public Square, at the intersection of Ontario + Superior, has created one hell of crater. See the NewsChannel 5 slideshow here.
This is not a [...]
“Unlike his soon-to-be Democratic opponent, the traditionally urban, Chicago-based Barack Obama, John McCain hails from the American Southwest, a surging, spawling, and very dynamic region of the country. Although Phoenix is usually panned, like sister city Houston, for its uncontrollable growth, these cities possess the DNA of true American urbanism–an essential suburban horizontalism. These new [...]
“So we offer our endorsement of Barack Obama for the Democratic Presidential Nomination. Although both talked about the investment in infrastructure, we feel that a President Obama would make more robust investment in urban infrastructures. Obama possesses an idealism that will most likely produce urban renewal-like programs on the scale of LBJ’s Great Society, which [...]
“The 32 Annual Cleveland International Film Festival has a ’section committed to green awareness’ entitled ‘It’s Easy Being Green’ and features five films -
The Green Chain
Mountain Top Removal
The Planet
The Return of the Cuyahoga
Flow, for the Love of Water…” (go to article)
“We here at BOTC are disappointed in the lack of response by all the candidates. Issues of infrastructure and its effects upon our urban, suburban, exurban, and rural landscapes + collective urbanims will be at the forefront of the next Congress and many congresses in the future. Since no candidates, including assumed poll leaders Joe [...]
“Blog on the City, a local Cleveland architecture, urban design, and landscape blog, is looking to make endorsements for the March 4 primaries. We are part of the greater Cleveland Design City Network (http://www.clevelanddesigncity.com/), an aggregator of all known Cleveland architecture + urban design blog sites which frequently comment on our region’s design endeavors.
We are [...]
“BOTC will be endorsing candidates who believe that sound, progressive, and responsible design (architecture, landscape, urban design) can aid in the recovery of the city + region and candidates who will fight and advocate for those design endeavors…” (go to article)
“CPA always puts on an enjoyable opening event . . . .
Urban Landscapes
Join Cleveland Public Art as Ryan Jaenke and Paul Rogers exhibit recent works inspired by Cleveland’s urban landscape.
This no cost opening event hits Thu 2/7 at 5:30PM at CPA, 1951 West 26th Street in Ohio City. Call 621-5330 or visit http://www.clevelandpublicart.org…” (go to [...]
“Another great Cleveland modernist has passed.
Steve Litt’s article here.
AP Obituary here…” (go to article)
“Year in Review” is posted in its entirety on Cleveland Design City below (to go to original post at Blog on the City, click here). Feel free to comment, or suggest additional high and low points for Cleveland design this year:
Overall, 2007 has been quite a year for design endeavors in Northeast Ohio. Interesting buildings [...]
“We here at BOTC, in conjunction with Cleveland Design City, will be posting our year-end awards and commentary on the year that was 2007. We will be posting awards and ridicule about buildings, proposals, urban design schemes, infrastructural projects, architects, activitsts, and patrons that moved Cleveland design forward or inflicted irreversible harm.
Look back here on [...]
“One of Cleveland’s true Modernists has passed away…” (go to article)
