by Shane Hampton | Feb 7, 2012 | Blog, Featured Posts
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...
by Shane Hampton | Feb 2, 2012 | Blog, Featured Posts
Students in the IQC’s first academic course this spring recently took a trip to Pauls Valley via the Heartland Flyer to scope out the site of their first project. Owners Larry and Jenny Wallace, of Pauls Valley, gave a tour of the property to the students, along...
by Shane Hampton | Dec 7, 2011 | Blog, Featured Posts
A while back, we told you about Meagan Vandecar, a student at OU Tulsa’s Urban Design Studio, and her project focusing on her town of Depew, Oklahoma. In mid-November, several IQC staff members met with Meagan and groups from the Tulsa Urban Design Studio and...
by admin | Oct 13, 2011 | Blog, Featured Posts
Meagan Vandecar is a second year graduate student at the OU Urban Design Studio in Tulsa. Meagan has taken a special interest in how rural and small town development can proceed in a world where the economy is always changing and increasingly competitive. She has a...
by admin | Oct 13, 2011 | Blog, Featured Posts
NORMAN – Architect Ron Frantz has joined the Institute for Quality Communities at the University of Oklahoma College of Architecture as the Director of Small Town Studios. Frantz will also teach in the College’s Division of Architecture and received a Wick Carey...
by Shane Hampton | Sep 28, 2011 | Blog, Featured Posts
NOTE: Another post with more details on this topic, focusing on territorial live-work buildings is now available HERE. We live in a world of buzz words and trending topics. When it comes to community design and planning, there is no shortage of emerging labels...
