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.
We've known for a while that Louisville struggles with its urban heat island effect—spurred on by swaths of parking lots and other hard surfaces and exacerbated by staggering losses of trees. In fact, Louisville is the fastest warming city...
Interested in the urban life living Downtown? Fancy yourself a modern flâneur in the city of fleur-de-lis? This Sunday, the Louisville Downtown Partnership is holding an open house for Downtown Louisville, showing off some of the newest residential options in...
January 7, 2003 was as cold as a winter day in Louisville gets. The temperature hovered below freezing and winds gusted between buildings Downtown. That Tuesday was the day I stood in front of what was then Louisville's "Porno...
  How did more than 30,000 annual motor vehicle deaths become something that most Americans accept as normal? A new paper by Boston University professor Itai Vardi tries to answer that question. Vardi reviewed American attitudes toward the problem of traffic deaths, starting in the...
We all know the home of Hillerich & Bradsby on West Main Street by the skyline-punctuating Louisville Slugger baseball bat tilted against its headquarters. But a few decades ago and a few blocks away, the company was born on...
The James Lees Memorial Presbyterian Church at 1741 Frankfort Avenue was built in 1915 on a prominent corner parcel on the corner of Frankfort Avenue and William Street in the Clifton neighborhood. The church has been a neighborhood institution...
Each year, a maximum of 70,000 refugees enter the United States, according to Jeff Guo at the Washington Post. On Thursday, President Barack Obama announced the nation would welcome 10,000 refugees from war-torn Syria in the coming year. According to the...
So often we talk about the built landscape of Louisville here on Broken Sidewalk, but there's another invisible layer of the city's infrastructure that's buzzing all around us—wireless telecommunications. (What such signals might look like has been speculated upon here...
Let's make our streets safe enough where this can happen, Louisville. The usual New York City public space instigators at Improv Everywhere have staged a surprise crosswalk ballroom dancing performance right in the middle of a wide Manhattan avenue that...