Urban Design, Land Development and the Innerbelt Design Workshops - May 19 and 26, 2006 What: A pair of professional workshops in which members of the design community can work to advance dialogue on the future of Downtown Cleveland in relation to the reconstruction of the Innerbelt When: Fridays May 19 and May 26, 8:30-11:30am Where: Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, 820 Prospect Avenue

Overview: On March 13, AIA Cleveland hosted an information session on the Urban Design, Land Development and the Innerbelt. The participants in this program identified a number of key design issues related to the Innerbelt reconstruction project and the ways it will affect the future of Downtown Cleveland. While some of these issues remain contentious, it seemed that many simply hadn’t been given sufficient study. The CUDC and AIA perceived a need to anticipate the opportunities and challenges that the proposed configuration will present, both to refine it while there’s still time and to make sure that scarce resources are well-directed toward high quality solutions.

To this end, architects, planners, landscape architects and urban designers from area firms joined CUDC staff, students and alumni for two 1/2 –day working sessions devoted to visualizing conditions created by the new Innerbelt and looking at design approaches to them.

Session #1: Connections

Session #2: Development Opportunities

Comments and Questions

Contact Steve Rugare, 216-357-3422, srugare@kent.edu

Or even better, get immediate gratification by posting to the Innerbelt thread at Green City Blue Lake.

Use the links below to go to PDF versions of the presentations from the March 13 information session.
Craig Hebebrand, ODOT
James Havilland, Midtown Cleveland
Hunter Morrison, YSU
Mark Duluk, Arkinetics