by John W. Olson | Mar 11, 2014 | Landscape Architecture, Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urbanism
Everyone likes a great park. Parks, like the remainder of the built environment, range by how they are experienced and how they function. The classification of parks has been something that I have been thinking about over the past few years, and especially over this...
by John W. Olson | Oct 1, 2013 | Landscape Architecture, Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design
Recently I was honored to have been asked to provide a rendering for Bancroft Park as a visual aid to raise money for the improvements to the park. It was used for the Taste of OCC in April, 2013 and again this past weekend for the first “Harvest in the...
by John W. Olson | Sep 24, 2013 | Landscape Architecture, Streetscapes, Urban Interventions, Urbanism
A little over a year ago, many of my fellow interventionists from Colorado Springs Urban Intervention and I participated in Better Block Pikes Peak. (See Additional Photos of Better Block Here:...
by John W. Olson | Dec 22, 2012 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Landscape Architecture, Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urbanism
Okay, so I have assembled the following quote based upon comments that I hear about Downtown Colorado Springs often. I wish that no one actually says such things, but it is said because it is the simple band-aid to temporarily make a problem go away. We need to stop...
by John W. Olson | Feb 19, 2012 | Events, Landscape Architecture
I was thrilled to be asked to be featured this past week in the Colorado Springs Business Journal in the Young Professional Connection section. It has been a tremendous two years of business and the evolution from Olson Planning & Urban Landscapes to EVstudio...
by John W. Olson | Feb 5, 2012 | Landscape Architecture, Town Planning, Urbanism
Last week I posted The Village Green: Size Matters to the EVstudio website. “Right-sizing” the Village Green is a topic that is always on my mind as I design and visit new urban communities. Unfortunately, there are too few Village Greens that feel just...