Green Infrastructure

How planting a garden in the middle of a street in...

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...

How a renowned architecture firm is helping to remake a barren...

Three years ago, a massive industrial site in West Louisville's Russell neighborhood was bleak and looking bleaker. Wrecking crews were ripping out a complex...

How MSD’s Project WIN aims to eliminate Louisville’s combined sewer overflow...

Waterway Improvements Now—also known as Project WIN—is the slogan-slash-acronym for the Metropolitan Sewer District’s latest initiative to reduce water pollution and overflows from Louisville’s...

Meeting to weigh sustainability along Beargrass Creek in Germantown, Smoketown, Shelby...

As the largest watershed in Jefferson County, Beargrass Creek has long been a source of cultural pride in the area, wending through inner neighborhoods...

Community Improvement and the Impact of Razing 128 Houses

These days, terms like "shrinking cities" feel a lot like the "slum clearance" and "urban renewal" of the last century that wiped out large...