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...
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,...
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. ...
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...
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...
