by John W. Olson | Aug 3, 2011 | Events, Landscape Architecture, Sustainability
The new GJ Gardner Residence in Gold Hill Mesa is the featured home in 2011 for the HBA Parade of Homes, which officially kicks off this evening (August 4, 2011). I believe that the new GJ Gardner Residence in Gold Hill Mesa will serve Colorado Springs as a model for...
by John W. Olson | Jul 25, 2011 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Events, Sustainability, Urbanism
John Olson will be presenting at the REpowering Southern Colorado Renewable Energy Expo 2011 on August 6, 2011. He wil participate in a panel on Future Jobs Potential in NEED©. The following is a bio for John and a brief abstract of his portion of the presentation. ...
by John W. Olson | Jul 18, 2011 | Events, Sustainability
Another successful Sustainability Bicycle Tour is now behind us in Colorado Springs. On Saturday, July 16, 2011, approximately fifty people participated in the three-stage Sustainability Bike Tour. We were extremely pleased with the turn out for the event and...
by John W. Olson | Jun 28, 2011 | Events, Sustainability
Please join us for the second annual sustainability bike tour in Colorado Springs. The bicycle tour will take place and around Gold Hill Mesa, Old Colorado City and America the Beautiful Park. The bicycle tour this year, is organized and sponsored by Gold Hill Mesa,...
by John W. Olson | Jun 6, 2011 | Events, Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning and Design, Urbanism
This past Saturday evening, I attended a much-anticipated discussion about landscape urbanism, sometimes referred to as ecological urbanism, at the annual Congress organized by the CNU, or Congress for the New Urbanism, in Madison, Wisconsin. The Landscape...
by John W. Olson | Jun 5, 2011 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Events, Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urbanism
The following is an compilation of tweets from the CNU19 Congress in Madison, WI this past week that were either originally tweeted by me, or retweeted by me. You can follow me on twitter at @JO_Urbanist (JO_Urbanist) RT @mschartley: “you can’t have a...