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.
Sorry, I don't have time to use the car to get there. That'd take too long—I'd better bike instead. No, I don't mean "biking saves you money and time is money." I mean biking actually saves you time. No, I don't just...
With the Kentucky Derby just a few days away, there are a lot of visitors in our fair city. We locals have ideas about where Louisville's hotspots are, where the best restaurants are located, or the places worth spending...
Sitting in the center of the Jacobs neighborhood just west of Churchill Downs is a beautiful old school building designed in the Art Deco style. The Charles D. Jacob Elementary School, 3670 Wheeler Avenue, is actually two structures, an...
“Unabashedly urban” is an unusual portrayal of the drive out to the Beckley Creek portion of The Parklands of Floyds Fork, nearly 17 miles from downtown on the edge of eastern Jefferson County. Yet that’s how Scott Martin, parks...
While we all love the Kentucky Derby, getting there is usually a challenge. That's because Louisville isn't exactly set up to efficiently handle large events. The city relies on cars, and when you have hundreds of thousands of people...
Appalachian cuisine, which is quickly growing in popularity, could help revitalize a struggling economy, Jane Black reports for the Washington Post. "The foods of Central Appalachia constitute America’s own cucina povera, as rich and unexplored in the American culinary scene...
Right now, on Monday, May 2, the Board of Zoning Adjustments is deciding yet again whether Louisville's Land Development Code is worth the paper it's printed on. The commission tasked with granting waivers and variances to the land development code convened...
Is a neighborhood all grown up once it has a children's store? Nulu now boasts a pop-up style kids boutique with hip t-shirts and onesies themed around Louisville neighborhoods. The new store, called Oso, the Spanish word for bear, just...
Have you ridden the ZeroBus yet? (You'd better know what the ZeroBus is.) The cost-free, emission-free, electric Downtown circulator just got a little bit better with the launch today of its new app that details real-time bus locations, arrivals...