Online Exhibitions:

This collection of images was taken in 1969 by John P. Schooley, Jr., FAIA during an Urban America tour of Europe's New Towns. Urban America tours allowed architects and planners to tour new residential developments, suburban planning areas, and meet professionals involved in their planning and continued development.

The tour group visited housing and neighborhoods in Stevenage, Harlow, and Welwyn Garden City in England; Farsta and Skarholmen in Sweden; Tapiola Garden City in Finland; and Leningrad and Moscow in the Soviet Union. This collection is a part of the John P. Schooley Collection

This collection contains many streetscape scenes taken by the Neighborhood Design Center and the Knowlton School of Architecture. The Neighborhood Design Center is a non-profit organization whose goal is to enhance the economic viability and general appearance of major commercial corridors and the surrounding residential areas through capital investments and improvements in overall planning and design. Assistance is provided based on selected Neighborhood Commercial Revitalization Districts (NCR) and Community Reinvestment Areas (CRA). The NCR and CRA areas contain a variety of notable places within the city, including: Hilltop, Franklinton, Old North Columbus, Short North, Noth Market Historic District, Parsons Avenue, East Livingston Ave, East Main Street, Old Towne Quarter, East Long Street, Mt. Vernon Avenue, East Fifth Avenue, South Linden, and North Linden. Many of the streetscape scenes included in the collection were taken of these NCR Districts in 1985.

Also included in the collection are present-day streetscape panorama scenes that were taken by the Knowlton School of Architecture Digital Library staff in 2008. They were taken of the same NCR Districts in an effort to illustrate the changes that have been made over the years. The online exhibition highlights notable examples contained within the larger collection.

This collection of 70 black and white photographs was taken in the mid-1970s by Robert Samuelson for the publication Architecture: Columbus and donated to the Knowlton School of Architecture Library by the Columbus Landmarks Foundation in 2009. The collection contains images of distictive Columbus structures including schools, museums, libraries, government and recreational buildings, churches, and residences.

The Architecture: Columbus project director, Emeritus Professor Robert E. Samuelson taught at the Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University from 1976 to 2004.