Category Archives: HIS304 (2008)

Cleveland City Planning Commission

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Link: Cleveland City Planning Commission.

Neighborhood (Tracts)
University (1192.02, 1192.01, 1191.00, 1187.00, 1188.00)
Buckeye/Shaker (1197.01, 1194.02, 1197.02, 1195.01, 1195.02, 1194.01)
Hough (1186.01, 1189.00, 1128.00, 1127.00, 1126.00, 1125.00, 1124.00, 1123.00, 1122.00, 1121.00, 1186.02)
Glenville (1162.00, 1185.00, 1183.00, 1182.00, 1181.00, 1114.02, 1161.00, 1164.00, 1165.00, 1114.01)
Fairfax (1141.00, 1132.00, 1133.00, 1134.00, 1135.00, 1136.00, 1139.00, 1131.00)

Team 1: University & Buckeye/Shaker
Team 2: Hough
Team 3: Glenville
Team 4: Fairfax
Team 5: Cleveland and Cuyahoga County

After review, the above Census tracts *are* correct. You should gather data from the following tables in the 1990 census: Tables 1, 2, 3, 8, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, & 23. You should gather similar data from the tables in previous censuses. Photocopying the data for your tracts will amount to about 100 copies per team. Once your work is complete, you will hand it to me. We will make copies for the entire class, including a master copy. 

Also, today, I am handing out a series of abbreviated data sheets for the years, 1950 through 1980. This will help with tract identification going backward. The 1940 and 1930 tracts *all* match the 1950 labels. The 1990 and 2000 tracts are the same as mentioned above. The 1980 tracts match the 1990 tracts with a few exceptions, such as 1192.01 and 1192.02. In 1980, these tracts were a single tract 1192.00. Thus, the basic numbers are intact.

We will talk about this during class. It is *your* responsibility to make sure that your group does this correctly.

Reading Landscapes

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Reading urban landscapes and places takes years of practices but usually begins with the ability to observe simple aspects of the landscape. Rather than learn architectural terms, which are useful but highly specialized, we focus on developing a basic vocabulary and set of categories. By thinking about these basic categories, we begin to unearth relations between elements of the landscape and other elements, between structures and infrastructure, and between structures and everyday life, including social historical change. Our goal is not to become experts in one course period, but to become more informed consumers of the landscape, with the ability to make judgments about the landscape from what we see.

To that end, we read an excerpt from urban theorist Kevin Lynch, from a systems approach taken by an environment journalist, Stuart Brand, and from an experimental sociologist, William Whyte. Each looks at different aspects of the landscape, from different perspectives. What do they study; how do they explore landscape; what can landscape tell us; and how can we redeploy the landscape? In addition, we should think about these readings in terms of Italo Calvino’s metaphorical approach in the brief chapter we read from Invisible Cities.

Below is a worksheet, a microsoft word document. Print it out. Use it to guide your reading. Answer the questions (handwritten is fine) and bring it to class. After class, place it in your reading journal.  Preparation Worksheet for Brand, Lynch, & Whyte