Leah Hollstein

About Leah Hollstein

My academic interests include Land Use and Environmental Planning, Green Infrastructure, Planning Practice, and Research Methods. I am the Director of the Master of Community Planning program at the University of Cincinnati. I served as the co-editor of Book Reviews 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 – 26.
  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/s... 
• 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|25.
  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-infr... 
• 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/m...