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Future Promise for Forgotten History: A Strategy of Integrating Federal Projects and Historic Preservation for Reinvigorating Over-the-Rhine

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2015, MCP, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Community Planning.
The main purpose of the thesis is to analyze the Promise Zone’s applicability and possible benefits to Over-the-Rhine and finally make a suggestion of how to apply the Promise Zone Designation to Over-the-Rhine. Over-the-Rhine is a historical urban neighborhood located in the city of Cincinnati. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this neighborhood is unfortunately marked by poverty, high crime rate, housing abandonment and homelessness. As a poverty concentrated historic area in a shrinking city (Cincinnati), Over-the-Rhine is losing its population and some of the historic buildings here are in danger. Many issues occurred, such as lack of economic investment, not enough preservation of historical buildings, lack of a sense of an integrated community, the perception of the area as being unsafe, etc. In that case, reinvigorating OTR is urgently in need. Though the local government and 3CDC have done a lot of work in OTR and it is blossoming gradually, there are still many other resources that could be taken advantage of. This thesis analyzes concentrated poverty, shrinking cities, historic preservation, federal projects and current situation of Over-the-Rhine in order to search for means to redevelop Over-The-Rhine community as well as to find a way to strike a balance between redeveloping OTR and protecting its historic buildings. The proposed solution is to integrate existing federal projects and historical preservation for reinvigorating Over-The-Rhine and get it out of poverty. After the analyses stated above, and the review of the previous Urban Promise Zones application from the City of Cincinnati, the recommended method is to apply Promise Zones designation to Over-the-Rhine.
David Edelman, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Mahyar Arefi, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
63 p.

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  • Yang, R. (2015). Future Promise for Forgotten History: A Strategy of Integrating Federal Projects and Historic Preservation for Reinvigorating Over-the-Rhine [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427982679

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Yang, Ruoxi. Future Promise for Forgotten History: A Strategy of Integrating Federal Projects and Historic Preservation for Reinvigorating Over-the-Rhine. 2015. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427982679.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Yang, Ruoxi. "Future Promise for Forgotten History: A Strategy of Integrating Federal Projects and Historic Preservation for Reinvigorating Over-the-Rhine." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427982679

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)