This dude was rude to me, for no reason! And I'm not around here enough anymore to actually have a reputation to defend. I'm too busy working...you know...as a planner.

 

Man...a planning job, congrats, I probably wouldn't know what thats like [/sarcasm]...Anywho, you obviously have an ego/reputation that I am unaware of, and clearly you are superior to me since I am merely 21 yrs old, and currently still in school/co-oping.  I'll just wait until I graduate until I spread anymore unjustified knowledge on this forum...

1) Who are you?

 

A UC grad.  Sorry, you fail at assumptions.  BTW, do you talk to nothing but UC graduates only?  If so, thats not only sad, its stupid.  I'm an urban designer, planner, gamer and webdesigner.  I try to use my skills to help not only planners but... um...whats that word... oh yea... EVERYONE.

 

2) Who am I?

 

[ x ] "Glass Ego"

[ x ] "The Closet Weeper"?

[ x ] Poor Assumer

[ x ] Some Random Guy

[  ] Class Act

[  ] Polite

[ x ] Haterade Addict

[ x ] Attention Whore

[ x ] Powderpuff

[ x ] Guy who talks to UC Grads only.  None else need apply.

 

Someone who needs to feel big cause he really doesn't?  Thats how you responded to me even though I only told you, I'll talk the way I want.  Sorry you closed your mind sometime ago, but thats not my fault either.  Sorry you cant take a simple retort to a comment you posted at me, but you have to expect it will happen.  Seems like in your little world, planners have to be exactly like you.  Sad. =/

 

One last thing you seem to be forgetting Civik, Urbanohio is not the only forum on the net.  Go ahead and have the mods/admins delete my posts or ban me altogether.  I don't care, I have plenty of other places to go.

This dude was rude to me, for no reason!

 

Other way around, you were rude to me.  However, unlike you I can brush it off and move on.  I can't understand why you cant.

 

And I'm not around here enough anymore to actually have a reputation to defend.

 

But you are here enough to start things with people you don't like.  You also have enough time to dislike and pester people about how they post.

Fascinating...

 

I'm too busy working...you know...as a planner.

"Hey boss, I'm on Urbanohio.  That counts as planning, right?"

 

Please... -_- You really are offbase man.

Come back when you've got everything in line.

This is where the cliche, "Two wrongs don't make a right" comes into play.   

UC students (past & present) = :roll:

 

Ohio State is finally getting an undergrad planning program next year. It won't be done by fall but probably by spring.

Ohio State is finally getting an undergrad planning program next year. It won't be done by fall but probably by spring.

 

Yea!!!!

(Though it's 9 years too late for me. :|)

Never too late!

too damn late for me.  bah!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Never too late!

 

It's too late when you graduated 5 years prior and have since moved on to other projects.

Over-the-Rhine Urban Garden Project Grows Thanks to UC Planning Student

BY M.B. REILLY | UC NEWS

August 6, 2007

 

           

 

OVER-THE-RHINE - As an urban planning student at the University of Cincinnati, Brendan Weaver, 25, of Clifton, studies all the issues that affect cities: Transportation, development, jobs, schools, taxes, growth and more.

 

In Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, he’s gone well beyond just studying growth to literally implementing it. On one tract measuring 16 by 90 feet that he now owns, Brendan is building a greenhouse. On another nearby tract, he is already growing a garden of vegetables and flowers.

 

The seeds of this project were actually planted years ago before Brendan entered UC’s top-ranked School of Planning, part of the internationally recognized College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning. He explained, “I actually grew up in New Orleans before my family moved back to Cincinnati, and I became a third-generation UC student. But before I entered college, I took a few years off to work and explore what I might want to do. That’s when I discovered Over-the-Rhine and its great buildings.”

 

Brendan said he made a habit of wandering the neighborhood at all hours in order to talk with residents, study buildings and examine urban issues first hand. He returned to the neighborhood after he began to study urban planning at UC.

 

“After I began studying planning, I didn’t want to wait to make a difference in the community. I asked myself, ‘What can I do right now besides walking around and studying?’ I’m not satisfied with research and established ideas,” Brendan admitted.

 

And so, this past June, he bought the parcel located at 286 Mohawk St. in Over-the-Rhine for his greenhouse, which he is constructing out of found and recycled wood, windows and other items. He began the urban garden on a nearby lot this spring – though that project was almost uprooted before it began.

 

“I came upon the garden lot after my aunt gave me a weed whacker, and I’d sometimes walk around cutting down weeds in lots. I would just do it because I consider this my neighborhood. Well, in one lot, I also began planting the garden,” stated Brendan.

 

One day, the owner of that lot drove by when Brendan happened to be at work. “At first, she told me I had to remove the garden, but I then made a deal. If I could keep the garden, I’d also make sure the rest of the lot was weed whacked,” he recalled.

 

And so, work on that garden has been proceeding since early summer. Brendan is up by 5 a.m. every day to water the garden as needed (with collected rainwater of course).

 

And he’s gotten a little help on both the garden and the greenhouse project from fellow UC students. Other students helped to build his garden beds of rich compost collected from years’ worth of soil and decayed leaves from neighborhood alleys. Fellow students are also helping him to build the greenhouse.

 

In the all-organic garden, Brendan is now growing an extensive array of produce and other plants, including beets, butternut squash, carrots, cucumbers, eggplant, green beans, honeydews, mustard greens, onions, peppers, pumpkins, radishes, spinach, tomatoes and zucchini along with basil, cilantro, morning glories, sunflowers.

 

What does Brendan do with his produce? “I eat it, or I give it away.” For a while that was easy since a local family with children lived right up the street. “They would come running to help me every time they saw me working in the garden,” recalled Brendan, “But then they moved.”

 

When the green house is complete and operational by next year, Brendan figures it will extend his growing season by about four months all told, meaning he’ll have a lot more to give away…and a lot more to do. “But it really is my fun. I haven’t watched TV – and haven’t needed to – for three years,” he said.

 

And once the greenhouse is done, Brendan has a new goal. He’d like to build a house on his Mohawk lot – that is, build it himself. “I’d have to learn a lot, but I can do it. What the garden and greenhouse have taught me is that everyone has the power to do something radical to change the world if we just run with our passions. Most people just don’t realize their power.”

heck yah Brendan  :clap: