For enrolled Harvard graduate students and Bloomberg Center for Cities staff

Join the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative to workshop a new teaching case on inclusive growth through urban redevelopment, taught by Professor Maurice Cox. This case is used in executive education programs for mayors and senior leaders.

A boxed lunch will be provided after the workshop.

We ask all participants to prepare for the case discussion by reading the materials. Further workshop details and case materials will be provided once registration has closed.

Space is limited for this in-person event. Registration will close when full or by Monday, October 13 at 5:00 p.m.

Case: Leveraging the Lakefront: Spurring Inclusive Growth in Cleveland, Ohio through Urban Redevelopment

Case description: This teaching case chronicles Cleveland’s economic transition from a bustling manufacturing hub to a mid-sized city with its knowledge economy workers largely clustered in nearby suburban counties, as well as how racial disparities were entrenched along geographic (east-west; urban-suburban) and socio-economic lines.

The case examines the challenges to developing the lakefront and highlights complementary lakefront development efforts there as well as along the city’s nearby riverfront. Bringing to the fore the need for a strong coalition to realize the project, the case also raises the challenges of actualizing inclusive planning to ensure support while maintaining political buy-in from regional and state actors.