Soapbox Speaker Series: Urban Pioneers
Risk takers. Urban dwellers who took a chance to revitalize a building, then a neighborhood, and ultimately, entire communities. It takes a certain kind of individual to make that leap of faith, investing sweat equity into an old shell of a building on a rough street. At Soapbox, we think it’s a common character trait, a cult of personality if you will, that joins these urbanists together. Come meet some of the pioneers who have reinvigorated Cincinnati’s past and are working hard on its future by reviving vital, urban neighborhoods.
Risk takers. Urban dwellers who took a chance to revitalize a building, then a neighborhood, and ultimately, entire communities. It takes a certain kind of individual to make that leap of faith, investing sweat equity into an old shell of a building on a rough street. At Soapbox, we think it’s a common character trait, a cult of personality if you will, that joins these urbanists together. Come meet some of the pioneers who have reinvigorated Cincinnati’s past and are working hard on its future to reviving vital, urban neighborhoods.
Soapbox Speaker Series sponsored by the University of Cincinnati Niehoff Urban Studio
Urban Pioneers: The Cult of Personality
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
5:30-7:30PM
The event will be held at the Niehoff Studio and is free and open to the public (RSVPs are strongly encouraged via Soapbox).
Panelists to include:
Neil Bortz, Mount Adams
Jennifer LeMasters Wirtz, Over-the-Rhine
Maureen Wood, Northside
Terry Chan, DCI
Moderated by Michaele Pride, Architect & Former Director of University of Cincinnati’s Architecture Program.
The Soapbox Speaker Series is presented by Soapbox and UC’s Niehoff Urban Studio to highlight best practices in “urbanism.”
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