POP UP CITY!

01/28/2014

We're very honored to receive the 2014 National Planning Achievement Award for Public Outreach from the American Planning Association! Thanks to all the volunteers, partners, and attendees that helped bring these spaces to life!

Learn more: http://www.cudc.kent.edu/blog/?p=3528

The CUDC is pleased to announce that our project, Pop Up City: Temporary Interventions for Community Engagement, has won the 2014 National Planning Achievement Award for Public Outreach.

07/16/2013

Learn more about the exciting recent events in the life of POP UP CITY! http://www.cudc.kent.edu/blog/?p=2429

The CUDC’s Pop Up City initiative was honored in the past twelve months with inclusion in the 13th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale and selected to receive the Places Research Award from the Environmental Design Research Association.

06/13/2013

POP UP CITY won the 2013 Place Research Award from the Environmental Design Research Association! More info: http://www.edra.org/content/great-places-awards

The CUDC's Pop Up City initiative was selected to receive the 2013 Place Research Award by the Environmental Design Research Association. The award ceremony was attended by the CUDC's Director Terry Schwarz and Associate Director David Jurca, which was held in Providence, Rhode Island on June 1, 2013.

04/24/2013

Hey friends, POP UP CITY! will be featured at this year's Environmental Design Research Association conference EDRA44Providence May 29th - June 1st. Check out our animated book trailer for the story behind the project, through the eyes of Pop Up Panda:

http://www.cudc.kent.edu/pop_up_city/index.html

The Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CUDC) is the combined home of Kent State's graduate program in urban design and the public service activities of the Urban Design Center of Northeast Ohio (UDC).

04/01/2013

Kent State CUDC launches COLDSCAPES competition to spur innovative design in cold weather cities:
http://www.cudc.kent.edu/blog/?p=2270

We’re very excited to announce our new winter weather-related initiative, the Center for Outdoor Living Design, which conveniently forms the acronym COLD. The project is intended to encourage designers of various disciplines to engage more creatively with the opportunities presented by winter weathe...

02/21/2013

Today is the last day to vote for Mobile Encounters!

02/13/2013

Artist Jimmy Kuehnle makes a deLIGHTful entrance into Cleveland's SPACES gallery as one stop on his monthlong Twinkling Tricycle Tour of Enchantment. The exh...

02/12/2013

Creative idea from Sofia, Bulgaria for pop-up storefronts surrounding basement windows, called "Klek shops."

http://weburbanist.com/2012/12/03/shops-pop-up-around-basement-windows-in-urban-sofia/

After the fall of communism, entrepreneurs in Sofia, Bulgaria, beat high storefront rents by opening tiny convenience stores around basement windows.

02/07/2013

02/06/2013

Check out our pitch video for Mobile Encounters! If you like what you see, cast your vote for Mobile Encounters at www.Vote4Mobile.com today!

Six BIG IDEAS are waiting for you! From February 1-20, go to www.cacgrants.org/vote to help decide which two new creative projects will be brought to life in...