Baxter Avenue

Baxter Avenue

Let’s take another look at this proposal for a placemaking roundabout...

The Circle at Broadway and Baxter Avenue concept has been one of my more popular Urban Compositions since it first appeared on Broken Sidewalk...
Tweets sent from Louisville. (Courtesy Eric Fischer)

What we can learn from where people in Louisville are using...

That softly glowing green blob up there is Louisville viewed in tweets. Data artist Eric Fischer, whose work we featured as part of our...

Baxter Flats could bring mixed-use to Irish Hill

A proposal on the Irish Hill side of Baxter Avenue would replace two shotgun houses with a mixed-use building called the Baxter Flats. Property management...

How about a beer garden in Tyler Park? Proposal could activate...

Image: The western half of Tyler park on a summer afternoon. (Amber MacPherson / Flickr) Several years ago, when I would commute from Downtown to...

Imagining Louisville: Circle at Baxter and Broadway

I took the opportunity over the holiday break to examine the design possibilities of a traffic circle, or roundabout, at the intersection of Baxter...

Another Legacy Development Project Faces Facade Repair

Another building by architect and developer Mark Isaacs is facing problems. A large portion of the fiber-cement facade at the Cliff View Terrace built...

Five Peds/Cyclists Dead, One Injured on Local Streets in Ten Days

There has been a rash of pedestrians and cyclists being hit and killed on Louisville streets in the past ten days, with many of...

Sidewalk Win! Baxter Avenue Edition

Thanks to a tipster for sending in the great news that the sidewalk we profiled way back in 2008 (one of our most popular...

Mid City Mall Study A Great Success

Thanks to everyone who attended the Mid City Mall Brief Urban Design Area Study (BUDAS) on Saturday! The event was co-sponsored by Broken Sidewalk...