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.
This gorgeous corner commercial building landed in our inbox from a tipster. Looking at the colorized postcard photo (below), it's easy to think this is another long-gone Louisville treasure. But the turreted, three-story building still stands today on the southeast corner...
From 1960 to 2000, the average weight of adult men and women in the United States rose 17.6 percent and 18.5 percent, respectively—so much that the average woman weighs "almost exactly as much as the average man weighed in...
The epicenter of West Main Street is moving a little farther west, and with it Louisville's Ninth Street Divide is slowly becoming less of a psychological barrier as development follows. Nearly a decade ago during the boom years surrounding Museum...
PechaKucha is part TED-talk, part semi-competitive sport, where value is placed on delivering an engaging speech within the bounds of 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide. PechaKucha Nights happen in over 700 cities around the world, and organizers in...
Small businesses in Appalachia have a harder time attracting loans and investments, and the Appalachian Regional Commission has been working on the problem in the last few years. On Wednesday, the federal agency announced at the Clinton Global Initiative America meeting...
Three corners on the intersection of Third Street and Ormsby Avenue in Old Louisville look a lot like they did a century ago. On the west side, two stately Victorian houses watch over wide tree-lined sidewalks. On the southeast corner,...
Vision Zero is a hot topic these days. News outlets are writing about it, cities are adopting it, and people are throwing the term around left and right. Boiled down, the concept seems simple: Vision Zero is an approach...
Jeffersonville Main Street, Inc. has begun installing its latest art project, a series of billboards affixed to the sides of buildings in the Southern Indiana town's downtown corridor. These billboards aren't hocking fast food, gas, or a gallon of...
Nearly 200 old coal power plants have closed in the last five years, and dozens more are on the brink of closure, John Cushman Jr. reported for InsideClimate News as part of an ongoing series, Coal's Long Goodbye: Dispatches From...