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Cleveland, Ohio.
It was founded in 1917, and expanded in 1983 by architect Philip Cortalyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 (Cleveland, Ohio) – January 25, 2005 (New Canaan, Connecticut)) was a distinguished American architect. The first director of the architecture department at the Museum of Modern Art (New York) in 1946, and later a trustee, he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold...
Philip Johnson.
The Playwrights' Unit
The director of new play development is Seth Gordon. Members of the Playwrights' unit are:
Cleveland is also part of the larger Cleveland-Akron-Elyria Combined Statistical Area, which is the 14th largest in the country with a population of 2,945,831 according to the 2000 Census.
Cleveland was hit hard in the 1960s and early 1970s by white flight and suburbanization, further exacerbated by the busing-based desegregation of Cleveland schools required by the United States Supreme Court.
Cleveland is emerging as a leader in biotechnology and fuel cell research, led by Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Clinic, and University Hospitals of Cleveland.
While the council controls the budget of Cleveland's government, the heads of all city departments are solely responsible to the mayor through the mayor's chief of staff, currently Chris Ronayne.
One Playhouse Square, a building within Playhouse Square Center, was originally used as the broadcast studios of WJW Radio, where disc jockey Alan Freed purportedly first coined the term "rock and roll".
Cleveland is served in print by The Plain Dealer, the city's sole remaining daily newspaper; the competing Cleveland Press ceased publication in 1982.