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A Neighborhood Designed for Halloween

by John W. Olson | Oct 31, 2011 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urbanism

Today is Halloween, which means that the evening streets are going to be full of little princesses, vampires, witches, ghosts, action heroes and pirates with dreams of candy and gum. As I reflect back on my former days of trick-or-treating, there were characteristics...

Bicycles Complete Transportation Networks in Communities

by John W. Olson | May 12, 2011 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Sustainability, Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urbanism

The bicycle is becoming an important mode of transportation for completing transportation networks in cities.  It is a cost-effective mode of transportation that is very effective at completing the common range of 5-15 blocks between transit hubs.  In small towns,...

Photoshop Replaces the Auto-Oriented with Walkable

by John W. Olson | Dec 1, 2010 | Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urbanism

Over the Thanksgiving weekend, I wrote a blog about Photoshop’s Content Aware tool.  Today, I decided to write about another application of the tool.  The top image on the right is an aerial view of the Shooks Run Neighborhood east of downtown Colorado Springs. ...

Envisioning the Redevelopment of The Citadel Mall

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...

The Five-Minute Walk: More than Just a Circle

by John W. Olson | Aug 23, 2010 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urbanism

The Five-Minute Walk is a standard that is best described as the average distance that a pedestrian is willing to walk before opting to drive.  The unit of measurement is commonplace in the planning profession and is often represented by a radius measuring ¼ of a...
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