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Norman Krumholz

Cleveland State University’s Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs and its faculty, staff, and friends have endowed a scholarship for Professor Norman Krumholz, in honor and celebration of his 25 years of service to the University.

The Professor Norman Krumholz Scholarship will be awarded to a graduate urban planning student who demon-strates an interest in equity planning and/or neighborhood planning.

Equity planning is a human-based planning method that focuses on the empowerment and unity of residents to create positive change within their own inner-city community. Krumholz has committed his entire adult life to enhance the quality of life for the working poor within urban neighborhoods.

Krumholz is the founder of the Center for Neighborhood Development and according to Professor Keating, associate dean of the College of Urban Affairs, “responsible for connecting the college to the neighborhood.”

Krumholz has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and a master’s degree in city planning from Cornell.

He has worked as the city planning director throughout the administrations of Mayor Carl Stokes, Mayor Ralph Perk, and Mayor Dennis Kucinich.

He is the past president of the American Planning Association (APA) and American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP). He is also a former member of the board of the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority.

During the Carter administration, the president appointed Krumholz as a member of the National Commission on Neighborhoods.

“The Carter administration wanted people known as neighborhood advocates to go around the country and hold hearings on neighborhood’s needs” Krumholz said.

Some of the more recent Krumholzs’ initiatives were the implementation of the RTA U-PASS, which allowed students to ride the system for a one-time fee throughout the semester. This was an idea that came from one of Krumholz students who submitted the idea as a thesis paper.

“We originally did a survey and found out students would support a low-fare pass,” Krumholz said. “If people use it, that’s great,” Krumholz added.

Though it was used last semester, U-PASS’s future is uncertain.

Krumholz has written several books on planning and urban neighborhoods and has pub-lished in many journals.

His book, “Making Equity Planning Work,” written with Professor John Forester, won the Paul Davidoff Award for best progressive book of the year for 1991 from the Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning.

Besides Cleveland, Professor Krumholz served as planning practitioner for Ithaca, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo.

“The practitioner produces a plan for the development and regulation of the land in the city, recreation parks, and public transportation,” Krumholz said.

Cleveland, however, is where Krumholz’s focus is at the moment. It is his intention to provide leadership for the future planners of Cleveland and cities across the nation. The main thing Krumholz says the College of Urban Affairs is trying to do is “educate as many good planners as we can.”

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