Louisville

Lost Louisville: Circular Living at Ballard Mills

Jasper Ward, one of Louisville's visionary architects, was involved with a plan to convert the now demolished Ballard Mills on East Broadway into high-rise...

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...

Event: Next Pecha Kucha Night planned for June 21

The fourth Pecha Kucha Night Louisville is set for Tuesday, June 21st at the 21c Museum Hotel at Seventh and Main streets. Presentations will...

Germantown according to Gus Ballard

Louisville is a little less weird without Gus Ballard's Germantown backyard folk-art installation. Photographer Lawrence Harris documented the alleyway spectacle in 1996. The collection...

Construction Watch: Edge Townhouses at Liberty Green

A pleasant surprise over my Derby week visit was to find the Edge at Liberty Green finally under construction on Hancock Street. This is...

Butchertown’s Blue Elephants

Move over red penguins. Butchertown has blue elephants! In other fake animal news, the giant pink snails are moving at just such a pace...

Watch out for a white Ford Ranger in Oldham County

Manfred Schmidt, a local runner and rider, described a recent bike ride he and friends were on in Jefferson and Oldham counties over Memorial...

Could the Dormant Bacon-DeBrovy Lofts Find New Life?

While back in Louisville over Derby week, I had the opportunity to stop inside the old Bacon-Debrovy Building on East Market Street (between Preston...

Infographic: Land Use and Retail Frontage

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...