Leah Hollstein

About Leah Hollstein

My academic interests include Land Use and Environmental Planning, Green Infrastructure, Planning Practice, and Research Methods. I served as the Book Review co-editor for the JUA from 2019-2024. I volunteer with our local APA chapter's adopt-a-class project to introduce middle-school students to planning and community development concepts.

Areas of Expertise

Environmental Planning and Resource Management, Land Use Planning and Governance, Planning History or History

Selected Publications

Stephen Kofi Diko, Leah Hollstein, Danilo Palazzo (2023) Routledge Companion to Professional Awareness and Diversity in Planning Education, Leah M. Hollstein (2019) Retrospective and Reconsideration: The first 25 years of the Steinitz Framework for Landscape Architecture Education and Environmental Design. Landscape and Urban Planning, 186, 56 DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.02.020, Danilo Palazzo, Leah Hollstein, Stephen Diko (2020) Urban Planning as a Career Preference for High School Students: Efforts to Improve Awareness about the Profession. Journal of Planning Practice and Research. 36 (2021) pp. 174-192 DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2020.1782056, Ravuri, E., and Hollstein, L. “An investigation of the use of Google Street View for identifying gentrification across diverse US morphological city types.” Urban Geography. (2025) DOI:10.1080/02723638.2024.2435219

Recent Courses Taught

Methods of Physical Planning and Design Analysis (Graduate Practicum) – Spring 2015 – 25.

Required course for 1st year MCP students. Students learn multiple methods of analyzing place, on a neighborhood level here in Cincinnati. Example: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/e43fe8caf05340ae863bb57c3b5a2f01, Site Planning and Design (Undergraduate Studio) – Fall 2019 – 21| 23.

Required course for 2nd year BUP students. BUP students' first studio experience, working through the entire site analysis and design process. , Green Infrastructure (Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar) – Fall 2014 - 17|20|22 - 23.

Elective course for all DAAP students. Includes a seminar and design component wherein teams of students from different programs compete in the EPA Rainworks competition: https://www.epa.gov/green-infrastructure/2016-campus-rainworks-challenge-results, Senior Capstone: Urban Planning (Undergraduate Practicum) – Spring 2022 - 23.
Master of Community Planning Capstone (Graduate Practicum) – Spring 2024 - 25.

Required final studio experience for graduating planning students. Students work individually or in teams on chosen culminating project. Examples: https://www.sopdaapworks.com/mcpcapstone