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, Kentucky ranks among the poorest in air quality and highest in asthma rates among U.S. cities. A new art installation from Propeller Health shows residents real-time changes in the city's air quality, equipping them with the data to...
On Hancock Street a block south of Nulu's main drag, East Market Street, 173 new market-rate apartments are now complete as part of the mixed-income redevelopment of the former Clarksdale Homes into Liberty Green. Housed in three, four-story buildings, the...
Protected bike lanes are now officially star-spangled. Eight years after New York City created a Netherlands-inspired bikeway on 9th Avenue by putting it on the curb side of a car parking lane, the physically separated designs once perceived as outlandish...
It's National Preservation Month once again, and here in Louisville, it's all too often the case that preservationists find themselves at odds with various development and business interests who quickly dismiss such heritage endeavors as bad for the bottom...
May is “Bike Everywhere Month” in Louisville, so here's what’s going on with bikes in the city. I’m not one of those cyclists who condemns all motorists, or argues that people shouldn’t ever drive at all. I don’t even wear...
Change requires leaders. Fortunately, America's cities have them. This week in Wisconsin, PeopleForBikes is helping host the first-ever Mayors Bike Summit organized by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. It's drawn forward-thinking leaders from Duluth to Fort Worth to Piscataway. They're...
Back in February, we were ecstatic to see the historic bones of a quirky two-story corner commercial building at East Broadway and Barret Avenue revealed. For years, they had been covered over with a clunky Mansard roof and a...
This past Easter I had the pleasure of spending an extended weekend back in Louisville. In addition to visiting with family and old friends, I also had the opportunity to see how the city has continued to change and...
A boom in the bourbon industry is good news for Kentucky—the state produces 95 percent of the world's bourbon—but has spelled trouble for the struggling wood industry, which has had a difficult time providing enough oak for bourbon barrels,...