Well done, KBragg, for correctly identifying our last sidewalk photo as Floyd Street looking north between Breckinridge and College Streets in the Smoketown/Jackson neighborhood. Identify today’s sidewalk in the comments.
Local News
- LG&E is on notice: Air Pollution Control District uncovers violations. (LEO Weekly)
- Temporary ice rink planned for downtown Jeffersonville. (N&T)
- But Louisville’s downtown ice rink on hold for another year. (WFPL)
- TARC’s Barry Barker wins Humanitarian Leadership in Transportation Award. (TRB)
Kentucky
- Proposed land-use changes put Woodford County’s future at risk. (Tom Eblen)
- A Kentucky city (Owensboro) reinvents a faded downtown. (NY Times)
- Lexington moving to convert downtown to two-way traffic. (H-L)
Transportation
- The pedestrian loses the way. (NY Times)
- No more pavements: Turning roads into one giant shared space. (Guardian)
- Local economic implications of urban bicycle networks. (This Big City)
- Chicago mayor mandates public transit for city employees. (NBC Chi)
- Questioning the Car: A walk with Mark Gorton. (Omnibus)
- Sao Paulo’s “Big Worm,” an elevated highway, must go, urban planners say. (WaPo)
- Cash-strapped Wyoming DOT to halt highway expansion. Will others follow? (StreetsBlog)
- Why cities should dismantle urban highways. (Smart Planet)
- Hidden toll of traffic jams: brain cell damage & autism risk. (WSJ)
- U.S. neighborhoods struggle with health threats from traffic pollution. (SciAm)
- The folly of city-owned parking garages. (Atlantic Cities)
- Narrow roads often work better than wide ones. (New Urban Network)
National News
- Jerold S. Kayden: Occupying Wall Street at the public-private frontier. (ArchPaper)
- Redeveloping former industrial sites doesn’t mean giving up on industry. (Atlantic Cities)
- Transforming historic urban space into a vibrant cultural district. (This Big City)
- New Austin blueprint envisions new direction for growth. (Statesman)
- Study: Sprawl’s architectural similarity helps mobile Americans stay stable. (WaPo)
- Innovation lessons, imported from Detroit. (Inc.)
- Harvesting the positive potential of Detroit. (PPS)
- The eight craziest-looking food trucks (Zagat)
- Retrofitting gas stations for good. (Pattern Cities)
- Is it time to bring back the rooming house? (Citiwire)
- Rethinking ways to divide living spaces for creatives. (NY Times)
Main Street, looking west, between Wenzel and Campbell.
Too easy, but only because I happen to have band practice there on a weekly basis – Main Street between Wentzel and Campbell, looking west, and right in front of CitySpace on Main.
The link that goes with “Study: Sprawl’s architectural similarity helps mobile Americans stay stable” is the wrong link. Could you post the actual link to the Washington Post article on this topic? I couldn’t find it on the Washington Post’s website. Thanks
Thanks, Andrea. I corrected the link above. Here it is again for good measure: http://www.washingtonpost.com/realestate/commercial-architectures-similarity-across-nation-provides-mobile-americans-with-a-sense-of-stability-study-says/2011/09/07/gIQAcLFkqK_story.html
Main street west, across the street from lincoln elementary
In the photo above, the blue building on the left hand side has always seemed like a natural choice for conversion to housing, anyone know, aside from issues related to banks/lending, why this hasn’t happened? If anyone has been in it or knows about it, is it structurally sound? Free of mold?
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