 This Sunday, I will be departing IND for PDX, to spend a week in Portland, OR for the Railvolution conference. I hope to be able to provide some updates while I am there, but there will be a lot of work to do. The conference starts on Monday and will run through Thursday. I …
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 …
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
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 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 …
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 …
Small business Feroze and Sons has been working for many months to get approval for a gas station and convenience store on the northwest corner of 10th St. and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. St. (DMLK). That site lies within the Ransom Place Historic Conservation District, so all plans must first be approved by the …
In early February of this year, IndyConnect, the transit plan that focuses on altering the central Indiana transportation system away from its current auto-only orientation towards one featuring rail, was released to the general public. In the ensuing eight months, public meetings have been held, discussions have occurred, and opinions have been shared about the …
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 …
For the past two year’s, Eli Lilly & Co have been volunteering in community improvement activities that have had positive impacts. This year, they are partnering with Keep Indianapolis Beautiful (KIB) in an effort to help beautify the west side of Indianapolis along the I-70 corridor. Long has this stretch been one of industrial or …