Louisville

Demo Watch: Eighth Street Warehouses Threatened

A massive block-long series of warehouses along 8th Street in the Limerick / SoBro neighborhood is scheduled for demolition. The Cook Compression Company, a...

Interview> Gil Peñalosa on Livable Cities

Image: Gil Penalosa. (Courtesy 8-80 Cities) Gil Penalosa is the executive director of 8-80 Cities in Ontario, Canada, which advocates for vibrant and healthy cities. He will...

Boutique Hotel Planned on South Floyd Street

A four-story brick warehouse at 822 South Floyd Street is set to be transformed into a boutique hotel catering to Louisville's gay community. The...

Demo Watch: National Tobacco Company on 30th Street Leveled

A massive complex of warehouses formerly comprising the National and American Tobacco Companies has been destroyed in West Louisville. Haven Harrington III pointed out...

Students From Yale Study Boutique Manufacturing, Bourbon in Louisville

American manufacturing may be on the rocks, but Deborah Berke, principal at Deborah Berke & Partners and designer of the 21c Museum Hotel, believes...

Towering, Naked, Golden, and Heading to Louisville

It looks like Louisville is set to out-Michelangelo Florence, or at least out-facsimile the Italian burgh. Those creative folks over at the 21c Museum...

News Roundup: March 5, 2012

And we're back. Congratulations to Big Bad Bill from the Ville for correctly identifying our last sidewalk photo as Shelby Street looking north toward...

Sunday! Join Us for a Film About Urban Agriculture

I had the lucky accident of stumbling across the premiere for the film Truck Farm in an abandoned lot in Red Hook Brooklyn last...

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...