A City Reborn

After living in the cleveland area for most of my life, I have come to love the city. Ask why? I too am not so sure why. I guess I've always had an eye for hidden potential. 

Growing up in the remote east side, my brother and I used to enjoy going to old abandoned houses and imagining what they used to be.  This is the way I feel about Cleveland. I like to imagine what buildings used to occupy cleveland and what people did in these now vacant spaces. It's not only ideas of what used to be there, but how could the spaces be used now. 

Ideas that provoke me to feel this way stem from landscape architecture installations that I learned about during my schooling at Ohio State. Ken Smith and his "Glowing Topiary Winter Garden", Michael Van Valkenburg "Radcliffe Ice Walls" or Christo and Jeanne-Claude "The Gates". These are just a few; there are many more.

I believe that these are great ways to develop design ideas for the city. These; in comparison, are great ways to exploit and explore areas of the city for future development. They may help define areas for entertainment, art, or culture. 

Cleveland seems to label certain areas as being such without first exploring what they truly are. 

There are several areas that I would like to explore during the next few weeks which include bus stops and spaces between buildings.