Levin College of Urban Affairs - CSU - News of the week 8.31.09

Here's what’s happening at the Levin College...

Out and About
APA Ohio Planning Conference
Feeding Cleveland Photo Contest Extension
Cuyahoga County Government Reform

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LCUA Out and About

Dean, Ned Hill spoke to 90.3 WCPN Ideastream’s Bill Rice about home prices in Cleveland looking better. To listen to or read the conversation go to wcpn.org.

Nick Zingale has been asked to judge the Cleveland Crain's Emerald Awards that recognize "Northeast Ohio's 2009 Champions of Sustainability - the triple bottom line of Profits, People and Planet". The ceremony will take place on September 22.

Nick Zingale will also be the keynote panel moderator for the 4th Annual Northern Ohio Energy Management Conference. It will be held in Akron at the John S. Knight Center on October 7.

"U.S. Senate candidate Jennifer Brunner promises to make cities a priority". In the article she credits her inspiration to a report our own Dean, Ned Hill was a part of. To read the article in its entirety, go to cleveland.com.

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APA Ohio Planning Conference "To Sustainability and Beyond"

The APA-Ohio Planning Conference "To Sustainability and Beyond" conference is on September 23, 24, 25, 2009 at the Sheraton Suites Akron-Cuyahoga Falls in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. 

The conference theme is sustainable planning practices and alternatives.  There will be over 40 sessions on sustainability, smart growth, comprehensive planning, code writing, historic preservation, transportation planning and community development.  In addition, James Howard Kunstler author of "The Long Emergency" is the Keynote Speaker on Friday (September 25th) and Randall G. Arendt will teach the professional development session on Wednesday (September 23rd). Finally, you can also participate in five very interesting mobile workshop sessions that include kayaking on the Cuyahoga River and biking along the Ohio and Erie Canal Towpath. 

You can get more information on the program and register for the conference at www.ohioplanning.org, at www.regonline.com/2009APAOhioconference.

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Feeding Cleveland Photo Contest, Deadline Extended

Deadline for submissions : Monday, September 21, 2009

This contest is open to all photographers living in Northeast Ohio. The theme is "Feeding Cleveland" and we are looking for images of the greater Cleveland area that convey the role that urban agriculture has played in feeding Cleveland in difficult and challenging economic times and provide visually ideas for what Cleveland may look like using local agriculture for the reuse of vacant and abandoned land in Cleveland.

If you have any questions concerning the contest or the submission process, please send an email to m.s.schnoke@csuohio.edu

For more information please visit http://www.urban.csuohio.edu/forum/events/feeding_cleveland_photo_contest.html

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Cuyahoga County Government Reform

Save the Date!!

Cuyahoga County Government Reform
Thursday, September 17, 2009
The Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Atrium
Glickman-Miller Hall
1717 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44115

The push to reform Cuyahoga County government is on and so is the debate over what that restructuring should look like. Competing reform plans are now slated to appear on the November ballot. On September 17th a panel of representatives from each of the reform proposals will present information on each proposal.

Join us to learn more about the proposals being considered.

Presented by the Levin College Forum, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs and the Center for Community Solutions, in partnership with the Northeast Ohio City Council Association with the American Constitution Society and the
Greater Cleveland Voter Coalition.

Sponsored by Nemastil Home Inspections and Marko Vovk of Ambassador Building Inspections.

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