Category «Neighborhoods»

Welcome new Urban Indy Blogger, Greg Meckstroth

You may have noticed last week that Greg Meckstroth, blogger from Urban Out,  posted on his own account here at Urban Indy.  I failed to introduce him properly, so now this welcome post is a week late.   Look for more great and thoughtful posts from Greg on here in the future.  We’re excited to …

October Wallpaper

Here is October’s wallpaper. Apologies for the repeated lateness. Again, my day job and other things have kept me VERY busy lately. 2560 x 1600, 1366 x 768, 1280 x 1024, 1280 x 853

The New Wave of Green Roofs?

An NYU grad student, Marco Castro Cosio, came up with an interesting idea to make green roofs a bit more mobile – outfit MTA buses in New York with green roofs. He’s calling the project Bus Roots. In addition to adding more green space, he also suggests that adding green roofs to these modes of …

Washington Court

Washington Court is a pedestrian street of Four Square houses from the Arts and Crafts-era located in Meridian Park neighborhood.   The only access for vehicles is located behind the houses along the alley, as seen here. I think I drove down Washington Boulevard well over 100 times before one day a few years ago, when …

Fixing Ugly Buildings

Recently the question has been raised how to fix an ugly building, mostly in regards to the Di Rimini (and here and here and especially here).  It is a hard question to answer without first discussing what “ugly” means. While beauty is in the eye of the beholder, there are obvious problems with treating a …

Fort Benjamin Harrison Reuse Underway

The ambitious Fort Benjamin Harrison Reuse project is underway in the city of Lawrence. Here’s an aerial shot of the land as it existed in April: It appears to me that a good deal of the street realignment has been completed.  The Civic Plaza is near the middle of the picture.  The streets are relatively …