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A Potential Path Forward for Old Colorado City

A Potential Path Forward for Old Colorado City

by John W. Olson | Nov 20, 2021 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Streetscapes, Urban Planning and Design, Urban Renewal, Urbanism

Old Colorado CIty (OCC) boasts wonderful brick buildings along Colorado Avenue and has the City’s highest concentration of Victorian Homes. It is a neighborhood in Colorado Springs rich with history. “Colorado City,” as it was once known, actually...
The Perfection of Imperfection

The Perfection of Imperfection

by John W. Olson | Nov 3, 2021 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Landscape Architecture, Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urbanism

Seaside, Florida is celebrating its fortieth anniversary this year. As such, it seemed appropriate to reflect back on the many years and generations of the new urbanism movement. Seaside was the pioneer project (at least the poster child) of new urbanism with the...

Removing Obstacles in the Public Process

by John W. Olson | Mar 27, 2012 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Urban Planning and Design

Today, I am prepared (if I see that it is needed) to address the Colorado Springs City Council regarding the removal of an extra regulatory hoop in the path of progress. Approximately three years ago, Downtown Stakeholders rallied around Colorado Springs Planners Ryan...

Euclidean Effects on the Built Environment

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...

The Life and Death of the Big Box

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

The evolution of the big box has become a fairly predictable life cycle for most cities across the country. Larger cities and their respective suburban communities were the first to realize that the expected life of the big box was short-lived. Wal-Mart appears to be...
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