by Shane Hampton | Apr 9, 2012 | Blog, Featured Posts
Our lecture series “Streets for People” has encouraged a dialogue about how streets can act as public spaces when they are not totally devoted to moving cars. The best example of this in Oklahoma is a great Main Street. Main Streets in Oklahoma, particularly in the...
by Shane Hampton | Mar 12, 2012 | Blog, Community Events, Events, Featured Posts
If you want to be encouraged and inspired about the future of community life in struggling small towns, mark your calendar for this upcoming event in Depew, Oklahoma, which has lately been responding to its challenges in a big way. (For a recap on Project Postcard in...
by admin | Mar 5, 2012 | Blog, Featured Posts
NORMAN – The University of Oklahoma joined Harvard University as one of only two universities with multiple teams honored in the 10th annual Urban Land Institute Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. One OU team received an “Honorable Mention First Place”...
by Shane Hampton | Feb 21, 2012 | Blog
Jason Roberts, who gave an excellent talk at our Streets for People lecture in September, returned to OU recently for the TEDXOU Conference. Jason’s Better Block Project has continued to attract national attention throughout the year, with several new projects...
by Shane Hampton | Feb 7, 2012 | Blog, Featured Posts
A few months ago, my post about Urban Design in Territorial Oklahoma included this photo of some two-story wooden storefront structures in Oklahoma City, taken sometime not long after the Land Run in 1889: I also went to the digital archives of the...
by Shane Hampton | Feb 2, 2012 | Blog, Featured Posts
Students in the IQC’s first academic course this spring recently took a trip to Pauls Valley via the Heartland Flyer to scope out the site of their first project. Owners Larry and Jenny Wallace, of Pauls Valley, gave a tour of the property to the students, along...
