Getting Started: Field Work and Community Input
Work is beginning on the Western Avenue Placemaking and land use project.
IQC Students Work in Seminole
Downtown Seminole, Oklahoma is the next stop for students in the IQC Community Workshop course, under the guidance of Professor Ron Frantz and Associate Director Hope Mander. A team of eight students is working on the project. The students represent four divisions of...
Pelco Products Helps Implement First Step in Shawnee Plan
IQC students delivered a final presentation to over 100 Shawnee citizens and community leaders on Monday evening. At the end of the presentation, the students announced that immediate progress can be made with a pedestrian wayfinding sign that has been donated to...
Reimagine Downtown Shawnee
Students in the IQC and Regional and City Planning studio have been working in downtown Shawnee to create a new downtown plan. The group of 13 students are working under the leadership of Associate Dean Charles Warnken, IQC Director Blair Humphreys, Associate Director...
Statewide Preservation Conference in Tahlequah
Last week IQC staff and OU students traveled to Tahlequah, Oklahoma for the Statewide Preservation Conference. Director Blair Humphreys, Associate Director Hope Mander, Professor Ron Frantz, Professor Emeritus Arn Henderson, OU Urban Design Studio graduate Meagan...
IQC Students Present Projects in Norman, Pauls Valley
It was an excellent first semester for the IQC Community Workshop Course. Professor Ron Frantz, Director Blair Humphreys, Associate Director Hope Mander have led two groups of students through two great projects. This first round of student projects shows the...
IQC Students Ready to Unveil Alvis Hotel Proposal
The semester is nearing an end, and the IQC Community Workshop is wrapping up. Students in the Alvis Hotel group are ready to present their final proposals in Pauls Valley. The students have chosen to reveal the proposal during a presentation at BrickFest in Paul's...
100 Feet: Designing Oklahoma Main Streets
Our lecture series “Streets for People” has encouraged a dialogue about how streets can act as public spaces when they are not totally devoted to moving cars. The best example of this in Oklahoma is a great Main Street. Main Streets in Oklahoma, particularly in the...
Depew Fest
If you want to be encouraged and inspired about the future of community life in struggling small towns, mark your calendar for this upcoming event in Depew, Oklahoma, which has lately been responding to its challenges in a big way. (For a recap on Project Postcard in...
Two OU Teams Honored in International Urban Design Competition
NORMAN – The University of Oklahoma joined Harvard University as one of only two universities with multiple teams honored in the 10th annual Urban Land Institute Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. One OU team received an “Honorable Mention First Place”...
Jason Roberts at TEDXOU
Jason Roberts, who gave an excellent talk at our Streets for People lecture in September, returned to OU recently for the TEDXOU Conference. Jason's Better Block Project has continued to attract national attention throughout the year, with several new projects around...
More on Overholser’s Live-Work Buildings
A few months ago, my post about Urban Design in Territorial Oklahoma included this photo of some two-story wooden storefront structures in Oklahoma City, taken sometime not long after the Land Run in 1889: I also went to the digital archives of the...