Branden Klayko

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Branden founded Broken Sidewalk in 2008 while practicing architecture in Louisville. He continued the site for seven years while living in New York City, returning to Louisville in 2016. Branden is a graduate of the College of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, and has covered architecture, design, and urbanism for The Architect's Newspaper, Designers & Books, Inhabitat, and the American Institute of Architects.
Bike Louisville also tipped us off on a fancy new app for MetroCall 311 that allows smart phone users to flag a problem on a map and even send in a photo of problems you see around town. The...
Bike Louisville has created a pretty fancy infographic and it's on display at a drivers license center near you. Here's what they're up to: Bike Louisville is in the middle of distributing bike/ped safety messages to motorists in Jefferson County and...
Now that the 60-foot-tall elliptical spiraling ramp up to the top of the Big Four Bridge in Waterfront Park has been completed for some time, officials are ready to begin work on the next phase of the bike and...
Some of the best news for West Main Street in years was handed down last Wednesday as Mayor Fischer, Governor Beshear, and officials from Michter's Distillery gathered to celebrate plans to renovate the long-vacant Fort Nelson Building at Eighth...
After a failed parking plan or transportation system, depending on which side you're on, at the Kentucky Speedway's big NASCAR race over the weekend, it's easy to see how the problems plaguing the speedway are really the same as those in...
I was reading an article recently about mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining and got to thinking... How many square miles have been cleared in Kentucky for MTR? And, if we covered all that space with photovoltaic (PV) solar panels, how...
The Haymarket maintains a special place in the collective conscious of Louisville's urban life. It represents a time of intense vitality in the city's urban core when Haymarket Square was as lively as any street the world over. While...
Just another day in the Highlands, perhaps. Over the weekend, hundreds of Facebook-connected Louisvillians set on keeping the city weird spilled off the sidewalks, momentarily taking over the intersection of Bardstown Road and Eastern Parkway. The "Movin' Like Bernie"...
Thanks to a tipster for sending in a construction update of Norton Hospital's radiation center on Broadway at Floyd Street. Last time we checked in with this project, it was little more than a hole in the ground and...