Region in Crisis

Region In Crisis: Smart Growth Alternatives for Cincinnati

Ever wonder why you have to sit in gridlock?

Ever think about what the landscape of a retail area used to look like?

Why do we work in one place, live in another, and recreate in a third?

Remember a time when you had to go downtown for everything?

A research project was conducted by graduate students in the School of Planning to study the current growth situation in the Cincinnati Metropolitan region. This website presents detailed reports of the counties which make up the study area, summary of various growth indicators, and puts forward three "smart" growth alternatives which can help make the metro area a more economically viable region in the future and more importantly help make the quality of life more enjoyable.

Thanks goes to Citizens for Civic Renewal who made this research possible through a grant from the Stephen F. Wilder Foundation