The University of Pittsburgh Community Outreach Partnership Center

presents:

 

 

“LEARNING FROM LEADERS: 

THE RISE OF THE CLEVELAND HOUSING NETWORK”

 

By NORMAN KRUMHOLZ, FAICP

 

Professor, Levin College of Urban Affairs

Cleveland State University

 

 

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2006

 

12:00 Noon1:30 p.m.

2500 POSVAR HALL

University of Pittsburgh

 

 

 

ABOUT OUR PRESENTER:

 

Norman Krumholz is a Professor in the Levin College of Urban Affairs who earned his planning degree at Cornell. Prior to this, he served as a planning practitioner in Ithaca, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland. He served as Planning Director of the City of Cleveland from 1969-1979 under Mayors Carl B. Stokes, Ralph J. Perk, and Dennis Kucinich. Professor Krumholz has published in many professional journals, including the Journal of the American Planning Association, the Journal of Planning Education and Research, and the Journal of Urban Affairs. He has written or edited five books on urban planning and neighborhoods, as well as chapters for many books. His book (with John Forester) Making Equity Planning Work won the Paul Davidoff book of the year award of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. His research has been supported by the Cleveland Foundation, the George Gund Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. He served as the President of the American Planning Association (1986-1987) and received the APA Award for Distinguished Leadership in 1990. He also served as the President of the American Institute of Certified Planners (1999-2001). He was awarded the Prize of Rome in 1987 by the American Academy in Rome and received the 2001 Homer C. Wadsworth Award as an advocate and practitioner of "equity" urban planning. In 2003, Professor Krumholz was inducted into the AICP College of Fellows. His Cleveland Policy Plan of 1974 has been declared a "Planning Landmark" in American Planning History for its emphasis on advocacy planning.

 

 

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