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Meet Louise Leland, Kentucky’s first female architect

Born in Springfield, Illinois in 1902, Louise Leland was the daughter of Jerome and Gertrude Akin Leland. Jerome was a descendant of the Lelands...

Cutting carbon dioxide emissions 30 percent by 2030 could prevent thousands...

The Obama administration's proposed rules to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by 30 percent by 2030 from existing power plants based on emission levels from 2005 "would...

How a renowned architecture firm is helping to remake a barren...

Three years ago, a massive industrial site in West Louisville's Russell neighborhood was bleak and looking bleaker. Wrecking crews were ripping out a complex...

Video: Ed Glaeser on Why Cities Matter

CEOs for Cities has released a great video by Edward Glaeser about the importance of cities today. Glaeser is an economist at Harvard and...

How 8664.org Will One Day Become Obvious

One day Louisville will collectively look up on an unencumbered Great Lawn and think, "Well, that was obvious." I'm, of course, talking about the...

New ‘Arena District’ Paving Nice, Kind Of Bland

Workers have been installing the new sidewalks in front of the Waterfront Plaza towers on Main Street for a little while now, and there's...