by John W. Olson | Nov 28, 2010 | Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urban Renewal, Urbanism
I was prompted today by a Colorado Springs Gazette article titled For Springs’ two indoor malls, “the jury is still out”. The article referenced Colorado Springs’ two indoor malls, The Citadel and Chapel Hills Mall. Both malls have seen better days, though the...
by John W. Olson | Nov 28, 2010 | Business
Over the Thanksgiving weekend, I decided to try out the latest version of Photoshop CS5. Through my experimentation with this software, I was made aware of their latest feature called ‘Content Aware’. The ‘Content Aware’ feature allows the...
by John W. Olson | Nov 17, 2010 | Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urbanism
Colorado Springs, like most cities, includes a handful of places that can be considered a “Third Place.” By now, you may be wondering ‘What is a third place’? This is a term that became popular in Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place published in 1989. ...
by John W. Olson | Nov 15, 2010 | Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urbanism
The following pdf document is a white paper by Rod Stevens of Spinnaker Strategies, a business development consulting firm, regarding the importance of returning businesses to the city. I hope you enjoy the white paper as much as I did....
by John W. Olson | Nov 12, 2010 | Landscape Architecture, Sustainability
I am providing a few slides for a colleague of mine for the Southern Colorado Sustainability Conference upcoming next week on November 18 and 19 in Colorado Springs. The portion of the presentation I am providing is on Xeriscape and how it relates to residential...