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.
The best infrastructure projects aren't single-minded—instead they solve many problems with a single design gesture. One of the top many-problem-one-solution projects we've seen is also among Louisville's smallest interventions, and it's tucked away on one of the German-Paristown neighborhood's most unusual intersections. "If you...
A study by Measure of America called Geographies of Opportunity ranks how residents of the nation's 436 congressional districts fare in health, access to knowledge, and living standards. An affluent area "just south of San Francisco that includes high-end cities...
St. Matthews is the testing ground for a new traffic calming device—a neighborhood roundabout. Two tiny traffic circles have been cut out of Nanz Avenue, at Macon Avenue and Iola Road, and landscaping will soon be installed. The technique isn't...
At least there's Alabama. In new rankings from the League of American Cyclists, Kentucky ranks 49th in bike friendliness, falling a spot from its 2014 ranking of 48th. The top five states this year were Washington, Minnesota, Delaware, Massachusetts, and Utah. The League puts together the...
Since 2013, the Louisville Water Company has worked to restore the Crescent Hill Gatehouse. The limestone building, built in 1879 and designed by Charles Hermany, is an emulation of a Gothic German castle. It received a new slate roof...
Three Louisville nonprofit arts organizations were among 1,023 nationally to earn funding from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the federal agency announced last week. The grants, totaling over $74 million nationally, are part of the NEA's Art Works and State & Regional...
Way back in 2012, we brought the surprisingly comedic film Truck Farm to Louisville, for what we believe was it's Kentucky premiere. A packed room joined us at Eiderdown for the screening and a discussion of urban agriculture. The film, on the surface...
May, much like the eleven other months of the year, is "Bike Everywhere Month." And today is the first day of National Bike to Work Week. Every year, May hosts a panoply of bike-related events, meant to raise the...
A few months after Honolulu's first protected bike lane opened, it's the latest to demonstrate a very consistent trend across the country: almost every protected bike lane cuts sidewalk biking in half. From August 2014 (before barriers were installed) to...