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 is one inspirational place. And new data from the 2015 Menino Survey of Mayors compiled by Boston University's Initiative on Cities proves it. The report was released this week by the U.S. Conference of Mayors and includes survey results...
Changes to seven bus routes in Louisville go into effect this Sunday, January 31, the Transit Authority of River City (TARC) has announced. "Most of the service changes involve minor adjustments to pick-up times in response to traffic conditions...
While the news cycle typically talks about individual development projects individually, looking at the bigger picture can reveal larger trends or insights. For instance, since we published our map roundup last week of the 16 biggest multi-family projects taking...
Street safety is a big topic in Louisville because the city's streets are not safe. That's part of the reasoning behind Metro Louisville's ongoing Look Alive Louisville pedestrian safety campaign that seeks to enforce traffic laws and educate about...
West Louisville is getting another Family Dollar, bringing the total number of stores for the North Carolina–based company to six in an area west of Ninth Street and north of Broadway. Construction is about to begin on the store at 3901...
Earlier this month, we discussed a parking garage that was approved by the Downtown Development Review Overlay (DDRO) committee back in October 2014. The very officially named J.D. Nichols Campus for Innovation & Entrepreneurship Parking Garage Structure is currently under construction on...
It's a common refrain that buildings today aren't built to last. Compared to the sturdy masonry of the 19th century of the hulking concrete work of the 1950s and '60s, structures from the late 20th century can feel flimsy...
Because protected bike lanes can make it comfortable for almost anyone in a city to ride a bike to a good transit station, they're perfect complements to public transit. And as various cities have found, transit projects that remake streets...
Bicycling for Louisville (B4L) knows that great streets benefit everyone, not just those, well, bicycling around town. To help promote the idea, the group that launched 2015 as the #YearOfTheBike is feting 2016 as the #YearOfTheStreet at its annual...