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.
Thanks to a tipster for sending in the great news that the sidewalk we profiled way back in 2008 (one of our most popular posts, locally and nationally) has finally been made functional. The tipster reports that the new...
Filmmaker Casey Neistat got a ticket for not riding in a bike lane in New York recently, a trick that isn't necessarily illegal, unbeknownst to the officer who claimed that cyclists should always stay in a bike lane. Upset...
The fourth Pecha Kucha Night Louisville is set for Tuesday, June 21st at the 21c Museum Hotel at Seventh and Main streets. Presentations will begin at 8:00pm sharp and the previous three events have been reportedly well attended, so...
Waterloo, Canada is considering installing a light rail transit (LRT) system and Snapsort, a local Waterloo tech company, created this infographic to explain just what's going on, in all sorts of infographic goodness. (Via the Atlantic.) The numbers on...
Louisville is a little less weird without Gus Ballard's Germantown backyard folk-art installation. Photographer Lawrence Harris documented the alleyway spectacle in 1996. The collection of anything and everything no longer exists. Anyone have more details? (Via Kaintuck.) Click on a...
A pleasant surprise over my Derby week visit was to find the Edge at Liberty Green finally under construction on Hancock Street. This is the privately developed portion of Liberty Green—by Bill Weyland's City Properties Group among others—that will...
Move over red penguins. Butchertown has blue elephants! In other fake animal news, the giant pink snails are moving at just such a pace and we hear they will be installed this fall. Also, as far as I know,...
Manfred Schmidt, a local runner and rider, described a recent bike ride he and friends were on in Jefferson and Oldham counties over Memorial Day weekend where a pickup truck shot a bb-gun as the cyclists as it sped...
While back in Louisville over Derby week, I had the opportunity to stop inside the old Bacon-Debrovy Building on East Market Street (between Preston and Jackson streets) where I met John Gray, who has a development proposal on the...