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.
Remember last November when Bill Weyland of City Properties Group told Broken Sidewalk that Hancock Street is a dead zone disconnecting the activity of Nulu's East Market Street with blocks of new development to the south? It appears that...
Only a few hours into 2016, Louisville already had its first pedestrian struck by a motorist in the new year. The collision took place on Dixie Highway between Alanadale Drive and Valley Station Road just before 3:00a.m. on Friday, January...
The first meeting of the year for the Downtown Development Review Overlay (DDRO) committee takes place this Wednesday, January 6 (details below). There's only one item on the agenda: the demolition of a non-historic auto-shop on First Street to make...
Here’s a highway success story, as told by the folks who build highways. Several years ago, the Katy Freeway in Houston was a major traffic bottleneck. It was so bad that in 2004 the American Highway Users Alliance (AHUA) called...
Now you see if, now you don't. Thanks to a tipster for sending in these photos of the now-leveled old Water Company Building at the Omni Hotel & Residences site. Metro Louisville was under a deadline to deliver a...
For the third time in a year, a pedestrian was killed by a motorist along Fegenbush Lane near Bardstown Road. The latest crash took place Thursday evening around 8:00p.m. when an unidentified man was crossing the four-lane road. The man...
(Editor's Note: Another year, and Louisville still isn't competing with cities serious about bike infrastructure. While the city did build a few miles of new bike lanes this year, Louisville still has no protected bike lanes like the ones...
You've got to walk down Main Street in New Albany a little ways out of Downtown to find the old M. Fine & Sons Building on the corner of Main and 14th streets. The stout two-story brick building operated as...
Louisville's Ninth Street Divide just got a little bit wider, and Downtown Louisville a little less walkable. During a street repaving project, two small pieces of sidewalk in the median of Ninth Street (aka Roy Wilkins Boulevard) at Magazine Street...