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Old Louisville

Learning from three decades of demolition at Spalding University

This week, the clock began ticking on a 30-day waiting period before Spalding University can demolish the former Puritan Uniform Rental complex at West...

Action Alert! Deadline Tuesday, July 5 to submit comments to Move...

Ever since the draft Move Louisville plan was unveiled in April, the city has been collecting public input about the goals, priority projects, and...

Urban Ecosystems: Why there’s probably a raccoon living on your block

Cities are their own manmade ecosystems, and they're teeming with wildlife. One animal particularly fit for the challenges of urban life is the raccoon, and...

AIA-CKC Home Tour: Bethany Adams reconfigures a dilapidated 1870s Italianate in...

On Saturday, June 11, the Central Kentucky Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA-CKC) will host its annual Home Tour and this year, we're...

Speed Over Place: Ousting the Confederate Monument for cars, not morals,...

On Wednesday, May 25, Jefferson Circuit Judge Judith McDonald-Burkman denied an injunction to dismantle and store the Confederate Monument on Third Street near the University of...

How Louisville’s bad air quality is “like a sunburn” for your...

Tuesday was the first Ozone Alert Day of Louisville's early summer season. The Air Pollution Control District warned us yesterday that ozone levels would be in...

Architects to showcase top Louisville residential projects in annual Home Tour

More than any other kind of building, Louisville is a city of houses. Walking through the neighborhoods that make our city great can be...

Watch America’s 20th century highway building binge unfold in four minutes

Today, a lot of us are left scratching our heads about why previous generations decided to build Interstate Highways where we did—like along Louisville's Ohio...

After devastating fire, The Tavern is completely rebuilt in Old Louisville

Around 3:30a.m. on a Tuesday morning in July 2014, The Tavern, an Old Louisville watering hole, caught fire. The blaze was the work of...