Archives for the Month of July 2006 on Katherine Natasha
Urban Studies I
University: The Humanist Neighborhood
When Moses Cleaveland founded the city of Cleveland in 1796, he established what would later become downtown, naturally the hotspot of present-day Cleveland. A year after Moses, another surveyor set up shop and home in the Cleveland area and established what would become Cleveland’s second downtown, University Circle.
Stearns Road, in front of my high school, Cleveland School of the Arts, using alternative printing methods... freaky alternative printing methods:
Case, from the view of Wade Lagoon:
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Urban Studies II
Breaking Ground: A Photographic Analysis
On the cold day of March 15, 1968, late in the morning, this picture was taken to commemorate a drastic move to insure that University succeeds over time by spending money, time and effort to make the neighborhood its best. For the next two weeks workers lifted a Case Western Reserve University building off of its foundation and readied it for a 100-yard trek east ward on campus. The building, Claud Foster Hall, a three-story men’s dormitory, was being relocated to make way for the construction of Circle Center, a major investment to benefit the 32 member institutions of the University Circle Development Foundation of 1968.
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Urban Studies III
University: As of Now
University is improving because many of its famous institutions are renovating and expanding, its relationship with Downtown is expanding and its population is steady growing. University has always been a successful neighborhood, but with recent developments it has outdone itself as a Cleveland destination. The community is focusing more than ever on improving communication and access with the rest of Cleveland. This revival is indicating University as a welcomed complement to the residential neighborhoods around it; a center of growth on Cleveland’s East Side.