The goal of the Urban Affairs Center's What Works Seminar Series is to bring in prominent authorities on topics of local interest and concern.
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What Works 2006
Food, Flora, Fiber, and Fuel
Urban Agriculture Worldwide: Economy, Environment, and Quality of Life
A discussion with David Mason, Urban Agricultural Specialist, Dept. of Primary Industries,
New South Wales, Australia.
View Mr. Mason's presentation & photos from his visit to Toledo
Monday, November 27, 2006 from 5-6pm at the McMaster Family Center of the Toledo Lucas County Public Library Main Branch. Free and open to the public! (view the event announcement here)
Organizing for Regional Collaboration
Lessons in Economic Development From Birmingham, England and Auckland, New Zealand
Presented by Michael Taylor, University of Birmingham, John Bryson, University of Birmingham, and Richard LeHeron,
University of Auckland.
View the presentations made by the session participants:
John Bryson,
Richard LeHeron, and
Michael Taylor.
View the event announcement here.
Monday, November 13, 2006
7:30am to 9:30am
Hilton Hotel, 3100 Glendale Avenue, Toledo
Breakfast will be served
RSVP to Pam Crabtree of the UAC at pamela.crabtree@utoledo.edu
or 419-530-3591.
Co-Sponsors: UAC, BGSU Center for Regional Development, UT Dept. of Geography & Planning, BGSU Dept. of
Geography, UT Office of Research
planning+good design+investment=growth vitality profit success
Presented by Hunter Morrison
Former Cleveland Planning Director who oversaw planning and urban design efforts that resulted in transformative revitalization and investment in Downtown Cleveland.
Thursday, September 28, 2006, 4:00-6:00 PM
The Chambers of Toledo City Council
One Government Center
Click here listen to Hunter Morrison's 09-28-06 What Works presentation
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Co-Sponsors:
- The Lucas County Commissioners
- Toledo Mayor Carleton Finkbeiner
- Toledo City Council
- The Downtown Toledo Improvement District
- The Toledo Design Center
- The Toledo Lucas County Plan Commissions
- The UT Department of Geography and Planning
View the full event announcement here.
About our Speaker: Hunter Morrison is the Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at Youngstown State University and a Senior Fellow in Urban Design at Kent State University’s Urban Design Center. Morrison is the former Director of the Cleveland City Planning Commission where he oversaw the development and implementation of Cleveland’s comprehensive plan-Civic Vision 2000 which was awarded the 1992 American Planning Association National Planning Award. During his time as Cleveland’s planning director, Morrison led the development of master plans for Cleveland’s North Coast Harbor District which is the site of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Cleveland Browns Stadium; the Playhouse Square Theater District, site of the country’s second largest performing arts center; and the Gateway Sports District, home of Jacobs Field and Quicken Loans Arena (the former Gund Arena). The Gateway project was awarded an Urban Design Citation from Progressive Architecture Magazine, an urban design award from the American Society of Landscape Architects, and an urban design award from the American Institute of Architects. Morrison has a BA in City Planning and Political Science from Yale, an MA in City Planning from the Harvard Graduate School of Design; and an Executive MBA from Cleveland State University. Morrison was awarded the AIA’s Thomas Jefferson Award for Design in the Public Sector in 1997.
Putting the Pieces Together - Public Markets, Fresh Food, and Our Local Economy
Presented by David O'Neil, Director of the Public Market Collaborative and former General Manager of the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia.
Wednesday, May 31, 2006, at the Civic Center Promenade at the Erie Street Market.
View the full event announcement here.
Regional Economic Development Tools and Ideas - Lessons from Cuyahoga County
As you know there are many local efforts to develop and implement regional economic development strategies in Northwest Ohio, many of you are involved in those efforts. The University of Toledo Urban Affairs Center has recently learned of some interesting strategies and economic development tools that are being developed and implemented in Cuyahoga County and Northeast Ohio.
We have invited the President of the Cuyahoga County Mayors and City Managers Association, Deborah Sutherland (Mayor of Bay Village Ohio) and Bradley Whitehead of the Cleveland Foundation to talk about some of their recent efforts to support and fund regional economic development within Cuyahoga County and Northeast Ohio.
Mayor Sutherland’s organization has led efforts to create two regional economic development funds that will invest millions of dollars in job growth within Cuyahoga County. Bradley Whitehead has led the Cleveland Foundation’s efforts to create the North East Ohio Fund which is described as “A Fund for Our Economic Future.”
Please join us to learn about their efforts to grow the Cleveland metropolitan region and to discuss our local efforts to promote and implement our own regional economic development strategies. It is our hope that we all can use this opportunity to learn from each other’s experiences and improve our own prospects for growing and developing our local economies.
Friday, June 2, 2006
2:00—3:30
The Toledo Club
The Corinthian Room
We look forward to seeing you on June 2nd. Please RSVP by May 31st to Pamela Crabtree at 419-530-3591 or e-mail her at pamela.crabtree@utoledo.edu.
Past programs in the What Works series:
- Dr. Kami Pothukuchi, professor at Wayne State University's Department of Geography and Urban Planning, provides an overview of successful food system projects in North America and how they relate to our region.
- Doug Farr (Farr Associates) and Laurie Volk (Volk/Zimmerman) on the New Urbanism.
- Robert Gibbs (Gibbs Planning Group) on "Rethinking Retail: Trends in Commercial Development and Planning".
- Joe Riley, five term Mayor of Charleston, South Carolina, on preservation policy and how the historic fabric of a community can attract tourism and seed revitalization.
- Myron Orfield, former Minnesota State Senator and president/founder of Ameregis, spoke on sprawl and regional cooperation issues in "Finding Common Ground in Northwest Ohio".
- Bruce Katz, Director, Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, The Brookings Institute, gave a presentation entitled "Beyond Sprawl: Reinventing the Metropolis".
- Douglas Kelbaugh, Dean, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning,
The University of Michigan, gave a presentation that introduced the tenants of New Urbanism
and how to redesign post war retail/commercial developments to make them more viable,
attractive, integrated with surrounding neighborhoods, and more pedestrian friendly.
You can listen to his presentation by clicking the following links:
Douglas Kelbaugh, What Works 2000 (Part 1, time 1:14:27)
Douglas Kelbaugh, What Works 2000 (Part 2, time 0:35:58)
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(Click here to view the announcements from past What Works programs.)
If you have any suggestions for future What Works speakers or topics, please e-mail us at uac@utnet.utoledo.edu.
