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.
Louisville's in the midst of an apartment boom, with thousands of new units going up or planned in Downtown and surrounding neighborhoods. But what's behind all of this construction? On Friday, the Louisville chapter of the Urban Land Institute...
It's easy to see how parks have shaped the built environment and growth of Louisville. Our cherished Olmsted Parks system created a green armature for the city early in its history. Before that, Cave Hill Cemetery offered a mid-19th century retreat...
Each year, Streetsblog hosts the bracket no one wants to be on: Parking Madness. The competition pits 16 cities with too much land dedicated to surface parking against each other to claim the annual Golden Crater trophy. Last year, Camden, New...
Next month, 20 of the world's best horses will thunder around the track at Churchill Downs and Broken Sidewalk will celebrate its founding eight years ago in 2008. But there's another milestone we're even more proud of: for the first...
The Omni Louisville Hotel celebrated its ceremonial groundbreaking back on January 29, but construction activity is just now starting to really become visible on the $300 million mega-project site bound by Second Street, Muhammad Ali Boulevard, Third Street, and Liberty...
Central Appalachian coal country took a significant hit in population from July 1, 2014 to July 1, 2015, according to county-level U.S. census figures released on Thursday, John Raby reports for The Associated Press. In West Virginia, nine of...
For most of the 20th century, cities answered transportation problems by adding more pavement. More freeways. More lanes. More parking lots. More things that couldn't be reversed or revised. So it made sense, at the time, for the public process around...
The West Louisville FoodPort took a major step forward on Wednesday with the official signing of a development agreement between Metro Louisville, which provided the land for the project for one dollar, and Seed Capital KY, the developer of...
There's no denying that the Big Four Bridge is among the best things to happen to Louisville (and Southern Indiana) in a decade. Walking across the pedestrian and cyclist span across the wide Ohio offers an experience of the...