Final Report
Nine Mile Run Greenway Project
STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
College of Fine Arts

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
February 1998


Acknowledgements:

Carnegie Mellon University
Patrick Keating, Vice President for Business and Administration
Martin Prekop, Dean, College of Fine Arts
Edward Hydzik, Project Manager, Facilities Svc.
Richard Palladini,  Project Manager, Facilities Svc.

STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
Research Assistants
Choli Lightfoot, technical and design research;
Richard Pell, computer research and production;
Sean Lyons, history research and production;
Lynette Little, funding and administration, and
Tom Birdsey, Chris Frankland, Sharona Jacobs, Elif Konuk, Amy Marino, Cat Mazza, Niambi Sims, Lorne Colon, Gern Roberts, Peter Schwartz, Doug Lambert, John Paul

Steering Committee
Joan Blaustein, Department of City Planning
Jack Fisher, Regent Square Civic Association
Ivan Itkin, Pennsylvania State Representative
Mark Knezevich, Urban Redevelopment Authority Joe Plummer, Environmental City Initiative
Mark Schneider, The Rubinoff Company
John Shields, Swisshelm Park Community Association
Kenny Steinberg, Squirrel Hill Urban Coalition
Jeff Wagner, Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

Workshop Keynote Speakers
Jack Ahern, University of Mass. at Amherst
J. Glenn Eugster, Environmental Protection Agency John Oyler, Zinc Corporation of America
Ann Riley, Waterways Restoration Institute

Workshop Advisors
Don Berman, John Buck, Jim DeAngelis, David Dzombak, Court Gould, Judith Hull, Mary Kostalos, Andrew McElwaine, Ted Muller, Indira Nair, Nicole Newburn, Henry Prellwitz, Nancy Racham, Ray Reaves, Bob Reppe, Larry Ridenour, Harold Rollins, Kirk Savage, John Schombert, Kathy Stadterman, Ken Tamminga, Sue Thompson, Mark Young

Roundtable Participants-Community
Bridget Alexander, Kritsy Bannon, Elizabeth Barrow, Sukauya Basu, Eileen Bell, Dean Benjamin, Paul Boas, Gundi Caginalp, Pat Carr, Caterina, Doug Chaffey, Peggy Charney, Trishka Dargis, John Dawes, Mo Dawley, Bob Gangewere, Gary Goodson, Marilyn Ham, Rodney Harkness, Bob Hurley, Kenneth Kotovsky, David Kriska, Jerry Kruth, Petra Kuehl, Bill Lawrence, Lois Liberman, Anne Mates, Buzz Miller, Christine Mondor, Betty Mullock, Julie Murphy, Jeremy Parsons, Paul Peffer, Richard Piacentini, Mark Remchek, Jonathon Robison, Jeff Rothschild, Robert Rubinstein, Kate St. John, Rick St. John, Rita Schaier, Tom Schmidt, Uzair Shamsi, Tom Sheridan, Scott Sjolander, Marilyn Skolnick, Jon Smith, Jack Solomon, Loree Speedy, Dianne Swan, David Tessitor, Ned VanderVen, Susanne Varley, Kathryn Vincent, Bill Wekselman, Jane Werner, Alan Wertz, Linda Whitney, Lois Winslow, Adam Young

Roundtable Participants-Government
Mike Benton, Paul Brown, John Doyle, Eloise Hirsh, Jonathon Kass, Chris Logelin, Dan Sentz, Claire Staples, Bill Wadell, Jerry Williams

Final Report Production
Design: Edward Hirsch, Reiko Goto
Editing: Christine Simony, Jennifer Brodt, Karen Pryor
Production Assistance: Susan Murray, Jessica Cobert, Choli Lightfoot, Richard Pell

Supporting Organizations
Pittsburgh Department of City Planning
The Environmental City Initiative
The Pittsburgh Children’s Museum
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
The Carnegie Mellon University-University of Pittsburgh Brownfields Center

Ample Opportunity: A Community Dialogue, was made possible by a grant from the Heinz Endowments.