Highlights from the 2015 Placemaking Conference

We were pleased to welcome more than 800 guests from 55 communities around Oklahoma and other states to the 2015 Placemaking Conference last week. Videos of the lectures will be available soon. Until then, here is a review of the best insights of the day through the...

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 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...

2014 Statewide Preservation Conference

IQC partnered with the State Historic Preservation Office to host the 26th Annual Statewide Preservation Conference in Norman. Norman, with the university campus and surrounding historic neighborhoods, was a great place to get back to the basics and learn about the...