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The Building Keeps the Score, CPR Newsletter #8: The Body, October 2025

Images are a record of what we notice and what we ignore. This is true of the body. This is true of buildings, showing our care and touch; signaling our abandonment and neglect.

Climate Migration

Great Lakes Climate Migration, Urban Infill - Volume 9
Kent State University, 2025

How might climate change reshape the human and physical geographies of Great Lakes cities? An abundance of fresh water and relatively stable climate could draw people to the region, but the scale and timing of such movements are impossible to predict with any certainty.

Anticipated but Unpredictable: Planning for Great Lakes Climate Migration, Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, 2023

Explores the process and outcomes of a climate migration workshop held on March 23, 2023 at Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative in Cleveland, Ohio.

Exploratory Scenario Planning for Climate In-Migration: A Guide for Cities in the Great Lakes Region, Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, 2022

Envisions scenarios for managing population decline and vacancy while anticipating the possibility of future growth and development that is economically and ecologically sustainable, and socially just.

Temporary Interventions

“Pop Up City and Interim Uses" in Handbook on Shrinking Cities, Edward Elgar, 2022

Temporary Services for Shrinking Cities, NEIMED, Heerlen, The Netherlands, 2012

Pop Up City Urban Infill Volume 2, 2009

Urban Vacancy /
Cities in Transition

"Approaches to Transition Management in Cleveland, Ohio" in Co-creating Sustainable Urban Futures Springer, 2017

"Vacancy and Hydrology in Great Lakes Cities" in Third Coast Atlas, Springer, 2017

A multi-layered, empirical description of urbanization processes within the drainage basins of the five Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence River including maps, plans, diagrams, timelines, and photographs, as well as speculative design research projects and critical texts. Postponing diagnosis, let alone treatment of these conditions, Third Coast Atlas aspires to simply describe. It proposes a new geographic gestalt for urban analysis.

Re-Imagining Cleveland Field Manual: for Vacant Land Reuse Projects, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress, 2015 [pdf]

“Green Infrastructure for a Shrinking City,” in Green Infrastructure: A Landscape Approach, Planners Advisory Service Report 571, American Planning Association, 2013

"A Design-based Approach to Urban Regeneration" in Cities in Transition, Planners Advisory Service Report 568, American Planning Association, 2012 [PDF]

“Planning for the Spaces in Between,” in Defining a Future for America’s Cities Experiencing Severe Population Loss, American Assembly, 2012

Re-imagining a [Greater] Cleveland, Action Plan for Vacant Land Reclamation, Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, LAND Studio, and Cleveland Neighborhood Progress, 2011 [pdf]

Re-imagining Cleveland Ideas to Action Resource Book, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress, 2011 [pdf]

“Planning Shrinking Cities,” in Progress in Planning”, with Frank Popper, Justin Hollander, and Karina Pallagst, 2009 [pdf]

Sustainable Infrastructure in Shrinking Cities: Options for the Future, with John Hoornbeek, Ohio Urban University Program and Northeast Ohio Research Consortium, 2009 [pdf]

Research project completed by the Center for Public Administration and Public Policy and the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative at Kent State University. The report includes a synopsis of recent literature regarding the management of water, sewer, transportation, and energy infrastructure in shrinking cities. It presents findings from a series of interviews with infrastructure management professionals.

Re-Imagining a more Sustainable Cleveland: Citywide Strategies for Reuse of Vacant Land, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress, 2008 [pdf]

Historic Preservation

New Life for Old Homes, Ohio History Connection, 2017

Action Agenda for Historic Preservation in Legacy Cities, 2015 [pdf]

New preservation strategies are needed in cities experiencing population loss and disinvestment. The agenda proposes nine action items for preservation in legacy cities as part of a comprehensive and effective approach.

Historic Preservation and Urban Change, Urban Infill, Volume 7, 2014

Theory and practice of historic preservation as viewed through the lens of population loss, shifting land use patterns, and urban regeneration.

Other

Barrier-free Cleveland, 2023 [pdf]

A guide is for residents, caregivers, business owners, designers, public officials, developers, and anyone interested in creating more accessible, inclusive neighborhoods. Recommendations are organized into design strategies, policy recommendations, and individual actions that reduce barriers and improve accessibility in city neighborhoods

"In Place of" in Sketches on Everlasting Plastics, Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2023

How can we live without plastics? But, also, how can we live without plastics? Everlasting Plastics records and expands upon the exhibition of the US Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale, which excavated the ways synthetics both shape and erode contemporary ecologies, economies, and the built environment.

FutureCity Urban Infill - Volume 9 Kent State University, 2021

Emerging ideas in urban design and city-making

"Regionality" in An American City: Eleven Cultural Exercises: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, 2018

Published for the inaugural exhibition of the Cleveland Triennial, this book features essays and conversations that investigate what it means to stage a large-scale biennial today, in an American Midwestern city.

“Animal Zoning,” in The Arsenal of Exclusion/Inclusion: 101 Things that Open and Close the City, (Actar) 2017

Who gets to be where? The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion examines some of the policies, practices, and physical artifacts that have been used by planners, policymakers, developers, real estate brokers, community activists, and other urban actors in the United States to draw, erase, or redraw the lines that divide.

"Into the Pink" in How to Remain Human (exhibition catalog) Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, June 15 - September 5, 2015

Jimmy Kuehnle’s installation, Please, no smash is a vivid pink presence at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland—monumental in scale, but more malleable and tender than most monuments ever aspire to be. [PDF]

Advancing Opportunities: Cleveland's Opportunity Corridor, 2014 [pdf]

Advocating for a comprehensive vision for Opportunity Corridor.