Urban designer prototyping the built environment w/focus on placemaking, urban ecology and health • posts are 100% my own opinions
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Feb 17
My cousin died on a bench in New York. I wasn’t there so I don’t know, but sounds like if people would have taken a little time to help he would still be alive. RIP Philip.
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17 Oct 2025
How do we make Downtown Louisville’s public spaces feel more connected and create a great pedestrian experience? The UDS just posted a study we are calling the Downtown Open Space Network to try to jumpstart the conversation.
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23 Sep 2025
Join David Toda, Morgan Dunay and I this Saturday at 10 am for coffee, conversation and a tour of the Trager MicroForest. The event is free but space is limited, so please register via the link. Hope to see you this Saturday! udstudio.org/stories/sept-27…
@UofLEnvirome @SustainLou
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3 Sep 2025
With the recent news of plans for the historic OddFellows building site, I was reminded of a piece I wrote back in 2021 that essentially asked, "what will future generations of Louisvillians think about what we have left them?" udstudio.org/stories/regret-…
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18 May 2025
What if we could really green downtown? If I play with it some more I’d make the south lanes going the other way to restore the 2-way street.
#greenprint #Louisville
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2 Apr 2025
Some work we started at the UofL Urban Design Studio during the pandemic to map the historic corner store buildings, the cornerstones of our communities, was featured in Planning Magazine. planning.org/planning/2025/m…
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10 Mar 2025
Ground lighting is up and running at the Trager MicroForest
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1 Mar 2025
New lighting is up at the Trager MicroForest. Soon the rest of the 65 trees and pathway will be complete and the ground lighting will really set the space off. Cannot wait to get the space open again!
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3 Dec 2024
elicopter circling over the Watterson Expressway and Belknap Neighborhood.
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27 Nov 2024
Another great urbanist walking tour in the books. Sharing different corners of our community with the people who live in and work to make them better has been energizing and gives hope for the future of our city. Here is a recap from our NULU expedition.
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11 Nov 2024
It was great to spend Saturday at the Trager MicroForest and see trees going in. So many more trees on the way!
11 Nov 2024
A lot of activity this past weekend at the Trager MicroForest. First delivery and planting of trees.
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1 Nov 2024
The next Society of Urban Perambulators (SouP) event will be in the booming NULU commercial district on Nov. 16th. If you are interested in joining us on this free urbanist walk, please send me a message so I can add you to the RSVP list. udstudio.org/stories/soup-nu…
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28 Oct 2024
Is this a new impound lot downtown? What is with the razor wire? The new metal angled fence wasn’t enough?
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21 Oct 2024
The Market Street streetscape revitalization project we were prototyping that day finally started construction this year, though sadly Olmsted's treed median component did not make it into the final redesign.
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21 Oct 2024
Doop Dee Doop Dee Doo… don’t mind us… just simulating a planted median…(Louisville, circa 2013 with @cityresearch @PatrickPiuma etc.) Nurseries are great partners!
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15 Oct 2024
Today is a two-fer in the UDS Field Notes. Along with Caleb Brook's piece on speeding and historic preservation, our own @allhopeissean uncovers some of the history surrounding A New Vision of Health Campus in the heart of downtown. udstudio.org/stories/the-his…
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15 Oct 2024
I always envisioned the Field Notes of the UofL Urban Design Studio to be a place to share thoughts and ideas about cities from a variety of voices, and today I'm excited to share a great piece of writing by Caleb Brooks. Please enjoy.
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9 Oct 2024
I hope the new study can shine a light on some of the past plans for the area that had great ideas that were never realized. I was a kid in Philly when there was a proposal for a treed median on Northwest Parkway. Had that been done then, there would be a lush tree canopy today.
Patrick Piuma, leader of the Envirome Institute's Urban Design Studio, weighs in on the history of #redlining that contributed to the placement of I-64 and efforts to improve Ohio River access for residents of the Portland neighborhood in Louisville. @stadsbeeld @uofl
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7 Aug 2024
Louisville's @ridetarc is facing having to cut service 50% if there is no new funding. We've drawn two contrasting concepts showing ways to do this. These access diagrams show the effect of each concept on access from various locations. 1/
Following yesterday’s posts about access, we wanted to provide a pair of examples of what access would look like at different bus stops.
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2 Jul 2024
The next Open Studio session focused on transit corridors will be on Wednesday, July 24th at the Urban Design Studio with Louisville Metro. How an we better utilize these important corridors throughout our community?
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