If you haven’t noticed, we’re putting pictures of Louisville sidewalks, good, bad, and otherwise, on the news roundups. If you have a picture of a sidewalk you would like to see here, send it to us at tips@brokensidewalk.com.
In other non-Louisville architecture news, the TVCC building in China designed by Rem Koolhaas’ OMA (Museum Plaza architects REX split from OMA shortly after the tower was announced) caught fire and looks to be a total loss. The “L” shaped building housed a Mandarin Oriental hotel and public space. The neighboring CCTV building is reportedly unharmed. Read and see more here and here.
Transportation Issues
- What’s better? Bus Rapit Transit (BRT) or Light Rail Transit (LRT) (World Changing)
- Plow your sidewalk with pedal-power (Urban Velo)
- Study: Corn-based ethanol worse than oil-based gasoline (TreeHugger)
- Stimulus compromise likely won’t cut transit funding (StreetsBlog)
- The Senate screws up the stimulus again: subsidies for cars (Boston Globe)
- Calling out Senate Republicans for their attempts to strip bike funding (Huff Post via StreetsBlog)
- More on the stimulus bill progress through Sunday (NY Times via StreetsBlog)
Local News
- Jeffersonville continues to revitalize its downtown (C-J)
- Old Stop-Lite Liquors site in Waterfront Park to be demolished (C-J)
- East Market Street already has a grocery store in the Bodega (C-J Letters)
- And A Pretty Pickle spotlights two more groceries here and here (a pretty pickle)
- Russel neighborhood community center may close by March (WFPL)
- Green urbanism and planning lecture at U of L set for Feb. 12 (Consuming Lou)
- Win free gift-certificates to Wild and Woolly Video (Consuming Lou)
- Local buried-power-line Facebook group makes it to Lexington paper (H-L)
- C-J environment blog attacks bike store’s adver-bike (Watchdog Earth)
- Two local candy-makers spotlighted (MSN via Lou HotBytes forum)
Southern Indiana
- Is Floyd County, IN handling storm debris better than Louisville? (Valley Report)
- Southern Indiana facing housing woes, opportunity (N & T)
- Jeffersonville still trying to work out its trash service (N & T)
- Getting ready for New Albany’s neighborhood forum this Wed. (NA Confidential)
Everything Else
- Reflection on urban planning failures of the past (Urbanophile)
- Louisville managed to stay off the 10 most miserable cities list (Forbes via Urbanophile)
- The current recession is looking worse than previous ones (Boing Boing)
- Shopping malls are exiting the American landscape (NY Times via Planetizen)
