Highways

"The history of the 9th Street Divide starts with urban renewal. Around that time period, cities around the country decided they were going to...

In early May, a woman walking along Dixie Highway near Farnsley Road in Shively was struck and killed by a motorist. The incident took...

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...

When you're zooming through Spaghetti Junction for most of the day when there's no traffic, it might seem like the tangle of highway ramps...

Here’s a highway success story, as told by the folks who build highways. Several years ago, the Katy Freeway in Houston was a major traffic...

It's pretty interesting to compare the different space requirements of various urban typologies. In the example above, the yellow lines represent (potential) retail frontage...

It's been a while since I dissected the unpublicized and unknown components of the Ohio River Bridges Project (the really scary stuff is over...

Steve Wiser, a local architect, historian, and occasional contributor to Broken Sidewalk, has been tweaking his proposal for a solution to the Ohio River Bridges...

One day Louisville will collectively look up on an unencumbered Great Lawn and think, "Well, that was obvious." I'm, of course, talking about the...