by John W. Olson | Jun 16, 2010 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Town Planning, Urban Renewal, Urbanism
There is a lot of talk today about retrofitting the abandoned properties in suburbia lately. The majority of the conversation is shifted toward large abandoned shopping centers and other large abandoned tracts of land. These are the easiest areas to fix due to the...
by John W. Olson | Jun 14, 2010 | Landscape Architecture
I am currently working on a retrofit project in Pueblo with EV Studio where the existing building and site have major drainage issues. It is an extremely flat site and multiple courtyards really complicate the drainage issues. In the design, we are faced with the...
by John W. Olson | Jun 11, 2010 | Urbanism
Enjoy this months issue of the Colorado Urbanist put together by the Colorado Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism. We held two events recently including a panel discussion on Golden’s Urban Renewal efforts and Co-Housing in this issue. The pdf is at...
by John W. Olson | Jun 11, 2010 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Landscape Architecture, Urbanism
On Wednesday, I wrote a blog on edge restraints (Landscape Edging: Which Variety Should I Use?) and some of the positives and negatives associated with them. In this blog post, I am going to relate the types of edge restraints to locations in which they would/should...
by John W. Olson | Jun 9, 2010 | Landscape Architecture
Landscape edging is the physical barrier between two landscape surfaces, most commonly a landscape bed and turfgrass. There is a multitude of types of landscape edging available on the market today, but how much of it is beneficial to your landscape? I am going to...
