2009 Cleveland Design Competition Partner
The Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CUDC) is the combined home of Kent State University’s graduate program in urban design and the public service activities of the Urban Design Center of Northeast Ohio (UDC). The CUDC provides real world learning opportunities for Kent State students and allows the UDC staff to provide design services to the entire region served by Kent State's eight campuses, with a particular emphasis on sustained relationships with Cleveland’s community development corporations and the network of non-profit organizations supporting them.
In addition to its resident academic and public service functions, the CUDC seeks to improve the quality of life in Northeast Ohio through a range of research and advocacy activities. Through design services, research, advocacy, and the professionals it trains, the CUDC works to build a sustainable and vibrant regional future based on ideas that work to: encourage ecological integrity, protect natural and cultural resources, stimulate economic prosperity, and enhance the public realm. Find out more at www.cudc.kent.edu.2009 Cleveland Design Competition Awards Sponsor
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, founded in 1974, is the nation’s premiere research institution on land use and taxation. Funding came from the Lincoln Foundation, which was created in 1946 by John C. Lincoln, a Cleveland industrialist who became intrigued with land use and tax policy as it relates to land through the writings of Henry George. Today the Lincoln Institute, located near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass., serves as a non-partisan forum for scholars, policymakers, practitioners, citizens and journalists, integrating theory and practice through education, research, demonstration projects, publications and conferences. The mission is to promote discussion of the multidisciplinary forces that shape public policy related to land.
The Lincoln Institute is presently conducting an outreach program in Greater Cleveland related to their film Cleveland: Confronting Decline in an American City. This is the second documentary film in the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy’s “Making Sense of Place” series. Shot in Greater Cleveland during 2004 and 2005, it examines how policymakers, community groups and others have wrestled with urban decay, the erosion of inner suburbs and the growth of outer suburbs in what was once America’s fifth largest city – and what future solutions might be. Find out more at www.lincolninst.edu.
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The Cleveland Mall Plaza Beautification Fund is a private trust established to support ongoing maintenance, improvements, and programming on Cleveland's historic Mall park spaces.
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