Students Travel to Muskogee

Students have been working on a Muskogee Downtown Plan.

Community Hope Workshop

Learn about a workshop held in downtown Muskogee to gather community feedback.
60 Years of Urban Change: Southeast

60 Years of Urban Change: Southeast

60 years has made a big difference in the urban form of American cities. This visual tool is a way to review the scope of these changes. In many cases, the most notable changes are a legacy of the urban renewal programs and planning of the mid-century period. This...

60 Years of Urban Change: Midwest

60 Years of Urban Change: Midwest

60 years has made a big difference in the urban form of American cities. This visual tool is a way to review the scope of these changes. In many cases, the most notable changes are a legacy of the urban renewal programs and planning of the mid-century period. This...

60 Years of Urban Change: Oklahoma and Texas

60 Years of Urban Change: Oklahoma and Texas

60 years has made a big difference in the urban form of American cities. This visual tool is a way to review the scope of these changes. In many cases, the most notable changes are a legacy of the urban renewal programs and planning of the mid-century period. This...

Where We Tweet

Where We Tweet

Geotagged tweets reveal interesting patterns in cities. A new map of more than 6 billion tweets from the last three and a half years shows where people around the world are tweeting. Here are some interesting regions in Oklahoma. Scroll to the bottom to explore the...

Cultivating Community at OU

Cultivating Community at OU

Monday marked the 20th year of the leadership of OU President David Boren and First Lady Molly Shi Boren here at The University of Oklahoma. Over the last two decades, Molly Shi and David Boren have promoted beautiful public spaces and architecture on the OU campus....

The New Deal Around Oklahoma

The New Deal Around Oklahoma

The New Deal programs of the 1930s transformed the nation with public construction projects. A new interactive map from Berkeley's Department of Geography lets you find New Deal projects anywhere in the country. In Oklahoma towns, many examples of these civic...

Jeff Speck Argues for Narrower Lanes

Jeff Speck Argues for Narrower Lanes

Today, a Jeff Speck article published on CityLab shares an excellent argument for narrower travel lanes. In the article, Speck tells how 12' lanes have become a national standard, despite many disadvantages when applied in urban settings: When lanes are...

PARK(ing) Day 2014

PARK(ing) Day 2014

PARK(ing) Day is a worldwide event where citizens turn parking spaces into places for people to hang out. Last year 8 parklets appeared around Oklahoma City, but this year more than 20 parking locations in 10 districts were transformed into creative miniature parks....