Tag Archives: urban infill

Louisville suburbs growing at expense of urban core, sayith Census

The Courier-Journal’s Marcus Green has a fantastic piece out today detailing the demographic trends in Metro Louisville suggested by the 2010 census. In the urban core, that trend is — to borrow a phrase from our former mayor — poorer, older and blacker than the city’s suburbs, which are actually growing robustly. Only a handful of neighborhoods [...]

Irish Hill Revitalization Project Selected

How does a post-industrial community remake itself? Well, it doesn’t hurt to get a bunch of smart people together and force them to compete for the honor. Courtesy of BrokenSidewalk.com: The Irish Hill Neighborhood Association announced the winners of a design competition intended to generate ideas for an abandoned brownfield sitein the heart of the neighborhood.  After a close review [...]