This edition of City Explorer focuses on a four-day trip to Medellin, Columbia, during March of 2013. As with other City Explorer booklets, this issue utilizes some observations of the built environment and attempts to find some possible takeaways for Louisville. These observations are meant as a starting point for discussion and not as a final report.

Click here to download the report: City Explorer: Medellin PDF (9.6 MB)

This edition of City Explorer focuses on a six-day trip to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during April of 2013. As with other City Explorer booklets, this issue utilizes some observations of the built environment and attempts to find some possible takeaways for Louisville. These observations are meant as a starting point for discussion and not as a final report.

Click here to download the report: City Explorer: Philadelphia PDF (4.3 MB)

We would like to sincerely thank everyone who came out on April 14th to volunteer their time and expertise to help with the Downtown Tree Inventory effort. Special thanks to Mayor Fischer for taking time to stop in and share his thoughts and support for the effort and initiating the volunteering efforts in Louisville.

We are currently compiling all the data that was collected and are planning out the next steps. We were able to gather data on approximately 40% of the downtown area and are looking to finish up the field checking of the last remaining areas. Once we have completed the entire field checking process we will begin to tackle the rest of the tree inventory areas. Below, Pat Smith put together a map that shows what was covered and what needs to be addressed.

If you or anyone you know might be interested in helping us tackle the remaining areas, please let us know. Now that the leaves are out, the tree identification efforts should be significantly easier, though tree specialists are still welcome and appreciated in the continuing efforts. Once we have completed the entire downtown inventory we will make the data public for anyone who would like to utilize it for research or analysis.

Stay tuned...

This edition of City Explorer focuses on a four-day trip to Bogota, Columbia, during March of 2013. As with other City Explorer booklets, this issue utilizes some observations of the built environment and describes some possible takeaways for Louisville. These observations are meant as a starting point for discussion and not as some final report.

Click here to download the report: City Explorer: Bogota PDF (5.9 MB)

This study, by the Urban Design Studio, examines and expresses the potential to develop the area of Paristown Pointe, near the intersection of Broadway and Barrett Avenue into a unique commerce and tourist destination in Louisville, Kentucky.

View the report here: Louisville Stoneware Brief Urban Design Area Study (7 MB PDF)

This edition of City Explorer focuses on a five-day trip to Austin, Texas, during February 2013. As with other City Explorer booklets, this issue utilizes some observations of the built environment and describes some possible takeaways for Louisville. These observations are meant as a starting point for discussion and not as some final report.

Click here to download the report: City Explorer: Austin PDF (1.8 MB)

In 2007 the Urban Design Studio, working with University of Kentucky architecture students, studied the SoBro (South of Broadway) neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky. This report was all but lost due to a hard drive melt down, but has finally been put back together. Many of the issues that existed in the area are still present today so we thought we would upload the document to help contribute to the body of work that has been done and is continuing to evolve for the neighborhood.

View the report here: SoBro Neighborhood Report 2007 (8MB PDF)

PARK(ing) Day 502 was a huge success with 26 organizations coming together to temporarily transform our city streets with some great park designs. As we work to gather all the photos and other material from the day, I thought we would post a time-lapse of the construction of the Imagine Transit in Louisville park that we built at the Urban Design Studio. Enjoy.