by John W. Olson | Apr 29, 2011 | Sustainability, Urban Planning and Design
Have you ever noticed that when certain words are used in a presentation, a dividing line suddenly appears on the faces of the audience? There are many words that paint a very vivid picture to an audience that may or may not be what was intended. Like me, you probably...
by John W. Olson | Apr 27, 2011 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Landscape Architecture, Streetscapes, Sustainability, Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urbanism
The following is my brief 2-minute portion for the Collaborative Design Group presentation for the Douglas County Board of County Commissioners. The presentation was for the Catalytic Downtown Design and the slides can be found here. Additional information from the...
by John W. Olson | Apr 25, 2011 | Landscape Architecture, Streetscapes, Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urbanism
The Downtown Development Authority of Castle Rock created a unique competition to envision opportunities in the core of the bedroom community between Denver and Colorado Springs. The City has the desire to bring the vitality back to its downtown and has offered...
by John W. Olson | Apr 22, 2011 | Sustainability
The Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installation, Energy and Environment, Ms. Katherine Hammack, announced the “winners” of a voluntary request by 100 applications to become Net Zero in three categories on Tuesday, 19 April 2011. The categories for...
by John W. Olson | Apr 20, 2011 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urbanism
The topic of Agricultural Urbanism is fascinating to me and like many tenets of the New Urbanism movement, there is something very intrinsic about how agriculture relates to urbanism. There may be confusion in what Agricultural Urbanism is compared to Urban...