Urban Design
Tuesday! Agrarian Urbanism Leaders at the Sustainable City Series
If you haven't registered already, you'd better make sure to sign up for Tuesday's Sustainability City Series talk about Agrarian Urbanism put on by...
Sheppard Square Redevelopment Plans Detailed
Officials from Metro Louisville, the Metro Housing Authority (LMHA), and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) gathered in May to announce...
What About Cobblestone Streets?
Many of Louisville's streets were originally paved in brick or cobblestone. Today, we occasionally can find a patch of cobblestones poking through damaged asphalt,...
New Sidewalks: Fleur-de-Lis Construction Fence Removed
The construction fences have been removed from the Fleur-de-Lis condos on the corner of Preston and Main streets, revealing a streetscape long barred from...
Learning To Speak Bardstown Road’s Urban Language
Bardstown Road is hands down our readers' favorite Louisville street. It's the birthplace of Keep Louisville Weird, seems to twist and turn endlessly with...
Street Parking Done Right at Liberty Green
Liberty Green is moving right along on the former site of the Clarksdale Housing projects. Grassy fields are being filled in with new apartments...
ZirMed Gateway Towers Terminate 9th Street
One of our favorite urban design techniques is the terminated vista. It's that rare occurrence where a road's view ends on a focal point,...
Broken Sidewalks: Doing It In The Road
One of the many problems with transportation design is the obvious lack of regard for getting around without a car. We mean, come on....
A Case For Bollards: Motorist Smashes Bench
Sometime between Wednesday night and Friday morning, a motorist ran a car onto the West Main Street sidewalk near the corner of 6th Street...