Code,951024
Subject,William Gould
Date,11/17/2006
Interviewer,Nina Gibbons
Abstract,"William Gould was born in Lakewood, Ohio in 1930 and worked as an architect in Cleveland starting in the late 1950s, serving on Cleveland's Planning Commission at the beginning of his career.  In this 2006 interview, Gould talks extensively about the development of Downtown Cleveland, discussing the 1959 Downtown Plan on which he worked and earlier plans to install a subway underneath Euclid Avenue.  In addition, he discusses Cleveland's  Euclid Avenue , recalling past memories of the street and talking about the current Euclid Corridor Transportation Project. He cites the decline of retail and residential structures on Euclid Avenue as a major cause for its decline and suggests a major rebuilding plan for the street.   Also, Gould stresses the importance of Cleveland's artistic community to the vitality of the city and urges city leaders to be more creative in coming up with ideas for Cleveland's development."
Special Notes,"city planning and urban development, architecture, urban renewal, euclid avenue"
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0,introduction and background
1,education
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4,Hayes and Ruth architectural firm: 1957 expansion of Cleveland Museum of Art
5,City of Cleveland Planning Commission
6,University Circle; 1948 Subway Plan
7,Subway Plan: abandonment due to political in-fighting and department store clout
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10,"Public Square: ""as an urban space, [the old design of] public square really worked"""
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12,euclid corridor transportation project; need to develop northwest quadrant; other development
13,"Downtown Plan, 1959: included plans for the establishment of Cleveland State University"
14,James Levin donated large portion of land to College of Urban Affairs
15,"Cleveland State and the ""mega-building"" concept"
16,expansion of cleveland state; declining popularity of urban renewal movement
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18,"Euclid Avenue, childhood memories: taking the streetcar from lakewood"
19,Easter Parade; Christmas events and displays; downtown shopping
20,"Euclid Avenue, urban crisis"
21,"""the future of the center city is going to have to change.  To what? I don't know"""
22,"the need for ""moderate preservation"""
23,"""I would rebuild everything on the south side of euclid from 9th street to 4th street"""
24,"""[I would rebuild everything] on the north side from the statler hotel... to the theatres"""
25,"""over the years, [buildings] lose their importance"""
26,downtown living: euclid avenue
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28,Warehouse District
29,Galleria; The Avenues residential development
30,"drawing employers to cleveland: ""Cleveland is known as the India of the USA"""
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32,Lakefront Development
33,restructuring port-based economies
34,the future of center cities: Frank Lloyd Wright's Broad Acre City as a model of sprawl
35,"Hough renewal; ""a shrinking core and an expanded residential base"""
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37,Shaker Rapid Transit Station
38,Breuer Building: planned demolition controversy
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40,Cleveland Museum of Art: 1957 expansion
41,the shift away from local architectural firms
42,cleveland architectural community
43,City Artists At Work: annual open studio event
44,artist enclaves and gentrification
45,creating and maintaining arts spaces
46,"Cleveland, urban renewal: ""we have to be more creative"""
47,"""it's up to the universities to stimulate [urban renewal]"""
48,funding
49,end
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