by John W. Olson | Aug 28, 2011 | Urban Renewal
Colorado Springs’ City Councilman Tim Leigh has a vision for Prospect Lake at Memorial Park in Colorado Springs. Memorial Park is a centrally located urban park only one mile from the urban center of Colorado Springs. As Mr. Leigh emphasizes in the flyer...
by John W. Olson | Aug 22, 2011 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Streetscapes, Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urbanism
Based upon the suggestion of a Colorado Springs friend, I visited a relatively new neighborhood commercial center south of the Castle Pines Golf Course, or northwest of Castle Rock. The neighborhood center, Village at Castle Pines, appeared to be a conventional retail...
by John W. Olson | Aug 18, 2011 | Landscape Architecture, Streetscapes
All of us have walked on a sidewalk that was too narrow for the amount of pedestrian traffic. Pedestrians typically are either forced to, or choose to, walk on the adjacent turfgrass when meeting others. At the same time, we have also walked on a sidewalk that seems...
by John W. Olson | Aug 15, 2011 | Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urbanism
The front porch may be one of the greatest gifts from the architecture profession. The benefits of the front porch continue to amaze me. If you are a devout reader of this blog, you may recall that I wrote about the front porch over a year ago, see The Front Porch and...
by John W. Olson | Aug 8, 2011 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urban Renewal, Urbanism
Euclidean zoning codes have created numerous headaches for public and private planners, developers, property owners, architects, planning officials, contractors, and common community residents for several years now. The non-articulate language of the widely used code...