An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Urban Culture, Space, Architecture, and Design
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 […]
My title comes from that of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute’s 21st annual conference held last week at The University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law. “The Wilderness City: Nature, Culture, and Economy in the Next West” was framed […]
This series of posts has been chronicling the development of the old University of Colorado Health Sciences Center site at 9th and Colorado, a relatively small (28 acre) site that’s being developed as a mixed use urban neighborhood. Attending the […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education, to which I’m a long-time subscriber, channeled its inner urbanist last week with three city-related articles in the January 27 edition. Scott Carlson wrote about “America’s Health Threat: Poor Urban Design.” He featured the work […]
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 […]
The first 2012 meeting of the Colorado Boulevard Healthcare District Board on January 5 was dedicated to preliminary discussion of the design guidelines for the site. There was an informative presentation by the consulting architect (SEM) and a senior city […]
The new year has brought a new name to the New Urban Network website and the print newsletter New Urban News. They’re now called Better! Cities & Towns (hereafter, BCT). In announcing the changes editor Robert Steuteville noted that the […]
At least that’s what the Museum of the City of New York proclaims in the title of a new exhibition about the 1811 Manhattan street plan that’s currently celebrating its 200th birthday. It’s a bold claim, given the grid’s great […]
The Colorado Boulevard Healthcare District (CBHD) Board’s final meeting of 2011, on December 4, was dedicated to a review of the site’s conceptual plan and a new presentation on the residential component. Material presented at the last couple of meetings […]
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 […]
ANARCHETIQUETTE: The removal and preservation of wall writings on public buildings before they are covered up or the buildings themselves are demolished or renovated; efforts to conserve an intangible heritage that would otherwise be eliminated. Since at least the 1970s […]
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 […]