Street Art

Walking the Cerro Alegre, a hill named for its gardens in Valparaiso, Chile, I encountered some impressive graffiti.  Of course, graffiti has the potential to be an ugly, destructive act, but this graffiti was art.  I was delighted by the creativity and talent that I saw in these works. Some [...]

Urban Agriculture: A New Trend in Planning

Food production, once banished to our rural countryside, has re-entered the urban landscape in the form of community gardens that have popped up in vacant lots, parks, and even rooftops.  This trend of growing your own food is part of a larger movement to localize food production – an alternative to [...]

Fancywork

For the last year or so you may have begun noticing a phenomenon around Denver and other cities, colorful knitted or crocheted work hugging door handles, signs, bicycle racks and even a tree skirt!  It is known as knit graffiti, guerilla knitting or “yarn bombing”.  I am a [...]

The Space Between

The great thing about the Downtown Denver Partnership is that it brings together a cross-section of people who, whether they admit it or not, are experts in their field. Since diversity drives innovation, it makes for a great platform to explore issues that impact us all. To that end, [...]

Architecture from Algae

How can public works projects be reimagined and redefined for the country’s future?

This was the question posed by WPA 2.0, a design competition sponsored by the UCLA Architecture and Urban Design think tank CityLAB.  The winning entry, designed by PORT Architecture + Urbanism, explores the possibility of turning CO2 into a [...]

 
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