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Dallas' Oak Cliff will be a real-life classroom for UT-Arlington urban planning students | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News

Dallas' Oak Cliff will be a real-life classroom for UT-Arlington urban planning students | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News

Dallas' Oak Cliff will be a real-life classroom for UT-Arlington urban planning students

12:38 AM CDT on Tuesday, September 7, 2010

By ROY APPLETON / The Dallas Morning News
rappleton@dallasnews.com

A budding partnership between the city of Dallas and the University of Texas at Arlington looks to Oak Cliff as a land of opportunity.

There, three UTA graduate students with interests in municipal planning and design will soon begin addressing corridor redevelopment, transportation issues and public spaces in what's being called the Oak Cliff Storefront initiative.

Working from an office at Methodist Dallas Medical Center, the students will move beyond theory to the groundwork, analysis and