Students Travel to Muskogee

Students have been working on a Muskogee Downtown Plan.

Community Hope Workshop

Learn about a workshop held in downtown Muskogee to gather community feedback.
Guymon’s Curb Extension Pilot Project

Guymon’s Curb Extension Pilot Project

In June 2017, an IQC team traveled to Guymon, Oklahoma at the invitation of the Texas County TSET Healthy Living Program. During our trip, we talked with community leaders and residents about low-cost improvements that might slow down traffic and make it...

Propose a Project in Your Community

Propose a Project in Your Community

Community assistance projects are a collaborative effort between the OU Institute for Quality Communities, Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture, and representatives from communities in Oklahoma. Projects result in conceptual design and planning assistance....

Waurika Collaborates with IQC and OML

Waurika Collaborates with IQC and OML

Thanks to the Waurika News Journal for allowing us to share excerpts from these articles covering a collaboration between Waurika, IQC, and the Oklahoma Municipal League. Please visit the full articles on the Waurika News Journal website. OU Partnership...

Oklahoma Arts Conference

Oklahoma Arts Conference

Art, placemaking, and community development increasingly interact in our state. Over the years we have partnered with the Oklahoma Arts Council several times with programs like the Cultural District Initiative. The Oklahoma Arts Council also has a...

THE BEAUTY OF THE QUAKE

THE BEAUTY OF THE QUAKE

According to a paper published by John B. McFarland in November of 2015, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission which regulates oil and gas in the state, although skeptical at first, are now beginning to take actions concerning injection wells and induced quakes since...

27 Hours in Vinita

27 Hours in Vinita

Hello! My name is Goutam Vella, I am a landscape architecture graduate student and graduate assistant at OU Institute for Quality Communities. I am from India with a background in architecture, I am always fascinated with buildings and green spaces....

Visiting Blanchard’s Main Street

Visiting Blanchard’s Main Street

17 students in the Environmental Design Practicum course took on a special project in Blanchard, as part of partnership between the City of Blanchard, Oklahoma Municipal League, and Institute for Quality Communities. After several weeks of studying street...

A Student’s Perspective

A Student’s Perspective

Hi, my name is Rachel Ware; landscape architecture graduate student & graduate research assistant at the OU Institute for Quality Communities (IQC). Landscape architect (n): “Landscape architects analyze, plan, design, manage, and nurture the built and natural...

Propose a Project in Your Community

Propose a Project in Your Community

OU Institute for Quality Communities (IQC) Established in 2008, the University of Oklahoma Institute for Quality Communities (IQC) offers conceptual design and planning assistance from the OU College of Architecture. This page provides an overview of how...

Toni Griffin and Mike Lydon – Placemaking Conference 2017

Toni Griffin and Mike Lydon – Placemaking Conference 2017

Design for the Just City (02:30) Toni L. Griffin works with cities as the founder of Urban Planning for the American City, with projects including Detroit Future City, a comprehensive citywide framework for urban transformation. She is developing values-based planning...

Victor Dover – Placemaking Conference 2017

Victor Dover – Placemaking Conference 2017

Making Great Streets (01:40) Victor Dover is an expert on how to fix our streets, and in the process, shape enduring cities that people really love. His work spans 25 years and five continents as a cofounder of award-winning town planning firm Dover, Kohl &...