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Dear recent alumni & current graduate students,

Planetizen, the leading news and information website for the urban planning and development community, is developing a comparison of Master's degree programs in urban planning. As part of this process, we are inviting current or recently graduated master's students in urban planning to participate in an online survey that will help us gain valuable insight regarding the most important criteria for evaluating graduate programs.

The link to the online survey is:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=58572270026

Responses to the survey questions will play a key role in helping us understand what students think makes a good master's program in urban planning.

From the Ohio Canal Summer 06 Newsletter

Walworth Run - The Next Branch for the Towpath Trail?

It was back in 1996 when Ohio Canal Corridor led a planning charette in the ClarkMetro neighborhood that looked for a new vision for Train Avenue. The daylong event was one of a half-dozen plans that were hatched throughout the city. Others included a new park in Tremont where West 7 Street and West 10 Street merge along Railway Avenue and a park honoring surveyors in the Warehouse District between West 6 Street and West 9 Street/ just south of the Shoreway Ramp. The exercises culminated in a booklet titled: Green Spaces/People Places and was a component of the Lila Wallace/ Reader’s Digest funded park initiative under the direction of ParkWorks.

See Cleveland in a whole new way:
WITHOUT YOUR CAR!

Rockefeller Park and the Cultural Gardens will be open for you to enjoy because MLK Dr will be closed to cars.

For 2006, “Walk and Roll Cleveland” will be Sunday August 6th and Sunday August 13th, from 11am until 5pm. MLK Drive between Rockefeller Greenhouse and the tennis courts is 2.1 miles which is a perfect distance to encourage bicycle riding, rollerblading, walking, jogging, picnicking and exploring.

Our suggested plantings for the site based on a plant list that was provided by the client. The wanted 50% natural plants and 50% exotic.

This map took a long time to finish. It involved going back to the site and walking the trailway with more attention to be sure we noted every bridge that would need to be constructed and how large and every step or ramp that we needed. Plus, I learned how to use publisher to put all the symbols and text on the original scanned drawing.

This is the proposed trailway for the Los Llanos-Santa Elena communities. At first we were not sure if we could keep the trail all on one side of the road, but we found out from the Municipality that there is a 13 m right of way. This allows us to keep the trail all on one side of the road and the Municipality will need to enforce the movement of some fence lines so there is ample space for a trail. The cool news is that at the end of our week of corrections after we made our rough presentations to the community, they asked for our maps because they were getting a backhoe and were going to start the trail.

I apologize for not posting earlier, the last two weeks have been very busy with course work. The project that I am working on required going out to our site several times--several times because the weather would not cooperate again. The first day we tried to survey the area, a thick fog rolled in. The kind of fog that is in scarey movies. The second day we tried to do our survey it started raining after we got to the site. We did our survey anyway but got soaked. Things are different here, not only because we are in a foreign country, but we dont have the luxury of a car that is easily available to us. So we end up doing a lot of walking and our site surveys take the better part of the day to finish.

Message From Levin Alum, Sean Hagan

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hey hey CSU folks,

so its time to announce the next un-official, un-sanctioned and
un-endorsed CSU urban affairs happy hour.

this month we'll meet up at the Lincoln Park Pub in tremont at 2609
west 14th street (216.621.2240) at 6pm on June 29th.

make sure to put it in your calendars and try to make it. a bunch of
people came in may and all had a good time. someone even flew in from
las vegas to make it.

please spread the word like you did last time. if you sent an email
out in may, send one again. alot of people came that I didn't invite

I got back last week and was happy to be home. I'm glad that I spend some time with my grandparents, but I was truly getting tired of all the bureaucracy we had to endure during a simple visa registration, customs, passport controls.
Overall my trip was good with no bags stolen or lost, no major delays and lots of good summer weather.
Here is the link to pictures
http://avika.myphotoalbum.com/view_album.php?set_albumName=album02

Please see the attached flyer and join Councilman Zone, City Planning, and others in a Public Meeting to discuss the future of the historic Hulett Ore Unloaders next week Thursday, June 22nd at 7:00 PM at the Gordon Square Arcade. Please feel free to forward this message to others who may be interested in this discussion.

If you have any questions, please call City Planning at 664-2210.