An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Urban Culture, Space, Architecture, and Design
Denver’s mile-long 16th Street Mall celebrated its 30th birthday this week. The Mall is Denver’s #1 tourist attraction, generating almost 50,000 free shuttle rides per day and millions of dollars in revenue for the city. Guest speakers at the party […]
There was a nice story in last Sunday’s Denver Post about how community members in my neighborhood of Park Hill banded together to install a basketball court and paint a building on the site of shopping center that was burned […]
California Home and Design Magazine has identified 25 American buildings that need immediate demolition. It offers this as the criterion for making the hit list: When proportion, balance, form and function come together in a delicate harmony, architecture is nothing […]
Arapahoe Acres is a nationally famous suburban subdivision located just south of the University of Denver in Englewood. It was built between 1949-1957 by the developer Edward Hawkins, with help from the architect Eugene Sternberg. Sternberg was then employed by […]
Ten days ago The Denver Post contained a story by Ray Mark Rinaldi reporting on the modified plan for a new hotel and transit hub at Denver International Airport that has taken shape in the wake of the airport’s breakup with Spanish […]
It happened around 11:30 PM on Monday, December 19th. The Denver Post has the story and some pictures, including this one: This was the scene at the eastern edge of Civic Center Park (where the occupation moved from adjacent Lincoln Park […]
Denver is well-known nationally as a city dedicated to New Urbanist development. Several projects in the city—most notably Belmar, Stapleton, and Highlands Garden Village (HGV)—have received lots of prominent press and some significant praise. The Congress for the New Urbanism […]
Water is a key resource constraint in urban development, especially here in the West. Because of projected population growth—anticipated to double to 10 million people by 2050—Colorado is predicted to have a municipal and industrial water gap by at least […]
Denver’s Lincoln Park—ground zero for the Occupy Denver protests—is part of a larger public space called Civic Center Park. Civic Center Park is a classic City Beautiful composition. The Occupy Denver protests coincided with a required visit by my Culture […]
I’m interested in the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement for several reasons, not least how it relates to the idea of The Right to the City and what we might learn about using public space to secure such a right for […]
Well, not exactly dead on arrival, but close. Almost from the start the great Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava’s designs for Denver International Airport’s South Terminal Project were assailed by critics for disrespecting the original (and now iconic) Curtis Fentress design […]
Last Sunday (August 14) Denver held its first ciclovía, known locally as “Viva Streets.” A two mile stretch of East 23rd Avenue in my neighborhood of Park Hill was closed to motor vehicles. For four hours bicyclists, skateboarders, rollerbladers, joggers, pedestrians […]