CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY SPRING 2000
LEVIN COLLEGE OF URBAN AFFAIRS
DEPARTMENT OF URBAN STUDIES
COURSE: UST 494/594 Historic Preservation: Policies, Planning, and Prospects
Instructors: Professors Richard Klein (216) 687-2136
and Michael Wells (216) 687-2106
REQUIRED TEXTBOOK: Pamela Dwight ed. Landmark Yellow Pages (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1993.)
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course will examine historic preservation from an architectural, economic, political, social, and spatial planning perspective. This course will focus on the history of western architecture, the evolution of the American Preservation Movement, and how both of these developments affected Cleveland’s built environment. This course will not only introduce students to historic preservation issues, but also familiarize them with its concepts and terminology.
COURSE METHODS AND REQUIREMENTS:
The course will consist mainly of lectures and classroom discussions. The weekly discussions will concentrate on different aspects of historic preservation. Audio-Visual materials will be used when appropriate. Local field trips are considered an important part of the class. Guest lecturers from the preservation community will also appear. Students are expected to attend lectures, read the assigned text, take the mid term and final exams on the prescribed dates, and complete the assigned term paper.
The mid term and final exams will be in essay form. Students will be given a choice of questions to answer on each exam. All exam answers are to be written in blue books, which are available at the CSU Bookstore. The mid term will be given the fifth week of the semester and the final at the end of the eighth week.
All students must write a term paper, which is due the eighth week. Undergraduates are required to complete a 10-page typed paper (2,000 words) on an historic preservation issue that interests you. The instructors must approve the issue or topic area. Graduate students are expected to complete a 20-page typed paper (4,000 words) dealing with the establishment of a new historic district either in Cleveland or a suburb. This is a theory paper, and as such, it is assumed that the neighborhood you choose to focus on favors this kind of designation. It is your responsibility to implement the process. Specifically, the graduate student is to choose a potential district, and then describe in detail the process you followed to create such a district. You need to define district boundary lines, give a brief history of the district, provide a demographic profile, conduct a windshield survey of the district, describe property values, meet with local CDCs or LDCs, and then make thoughtful recommendations for designating the area in question.
PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED:
It is important that students with handicaps requiring special accommodations identify themselves to the instructors immediately so that we can seek appropriate arrangements.
STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
Anyone anticipating needing special accommodations to take exams or complete assignments must identify themselves to the instructors immediately. These include accommodations for physical handicaps, learning disabilities, and English as a second language.
GRADES:
A = 90-100 D = 60-69
B = 80-89 F = 0-59
C = 70-79
SCHEDULE:
Weeks 1 and 2 Introduction to Historic Preservation
Weeks 3 and 4 Historical Analysis
Weeks 5 and 6 Mid Term/Maturation of Historic Preservation
Weeks 7 and 8 Historic Preservation Today/Final