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Downtown Market Study: City Of Olmsted Falls, Ohio, Kirby Date
Downtown Market Study: City Of Olmsted Falls, Ohio, Kirby Date
All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications
As the first step in establishing an economic development committee under a new mayoral administration, the City of Olmsted Falls worked with the Center for Community Planning and Development at the Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University, to prepare an analysis of market strengths and weaknesses for retail, office, housing and lodging in the City’s historic downtown area. This study was performed by economic development student Kirby Date, who is also a professional planner and coordinator of the Community Planning Program at the Levin College. In addition to the market study, a downtown survey of visitors and residents, …
Retail Market Study: Village Of Middlefield, Ohio, Kirby Date
Retail Market Study: Village Of Middlefield, Ohio, Kirby Date
All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications
The Village of Middlefield engaged the services of the CSU Center for Community Planning and Development to do a study of their retail market.
The Village had two goals:
1) Develop ideas to fill vacancies in Village retail spaces.
2) Make recommendations for strengthening Village retail business.
This study was developed to help the Village meet these goals.
Conceptual Framework For Using Gis In Building Community Capital Towards Sustainability, Sungsoon Hwang
Conceptual Framework For Using Gis In Building Community Capital Towards Sustainability, Sungsoon Hwang
Sungsoon Hwang
Sustainability—balancing fundamental human needs with ecological resilience—has been embraced as an overarching policy goal. And communities have been called to participate in the process of attaining that ideal. Community-based organizations (CBOs) can benefit from using GIS in building community assets and developing sustainability initiatives. However, GIS, has not been used widely for these purposes in CBOs yet. In this chapter, I illustrate how geographic information (such as maps) can be useful in community development drawing from community GIS projects, and explain how theories of sustainability and spatial thinking can be utilized in community-based efforts towards sustainability. CBOs can monitor and …