by John W. Olson | May 3, 2012 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Town Planning, Urban Renewal, Urbanism
Retrofitting Suburbia is an interesting discussion that has been widely discussed in the architecture and planning groups for the past decade. This has been the era that we have been able to see, too often, the failures of our development patterns since World War II....
by John W. Olson | Feb 9, 2011 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Sustainability, Urbanism
Partnership for Sustainable Communities I received a copy of the premier issue of the periodical P4SC today in the mail. The following are articles that I found interesting from the premier issue: Duany predicts decline of strict green building standards Sprawl...
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 | Jun 16, 2010 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Town Planning, Urban Renewal, Urbanism
There is a lot of talk today about retrofitting the abandoned properties in suburbia lately. The majority of the conversation is shifted toward large abandoned shopping centers and other large abandoned tracts of land. These are the easiest areas to fix due to the...
by John W. Olson | Jun 5, 2010 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning and Design, Urbanism
Thursday evening of this past week, I gave a presentation on new urbanism at Colorado College. The following is the prepared presentation: CNU-Colorado Presentation PDF Good evening, my name is John Olson. I am the Treasurer and Co-Founder of CNU Colorado. In...
