by OU IQC | Apr 4, 2017 | Blog, Featured Posts
Thank you for joining us at the University of Oklahoma for the third IQC Placemaking Conference! We hope the stories and ideas shared at the conference will help you engage in improving your community. We will have videos of the excellent presentations available soon....
by OU IQC | Jan 27, 2017 | Blog, Featured Posts
Congratulations, President Boren! President David Boren was honored Thursday by the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents for a half-century of public service. The Regents passed a resolution of congratulations in honor of the former Oklahoma governor, U.S. senator...
by OU IQC | Dec 5, 2016 | Blog, Community Events, Featured Posts, Muskogee
On November 15, we held a Community Hope Workshop to gather feedback and ideas for the future of downtown Muskogee. More than 100 Muskogee residents from all corners of the city showed up at the Martin Luther King Center to help us in this effort. At the center,...
by OU IQC | Dec 2, 2016 | Blog, Events, Workshops
Sunday, December 4 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Sooner Legends 1200 24th Ave, Norman IQC is partnering with the Norman Arts Council to produce a kick-off workshop for artists planning to apply for a grant for placemaking projects on Lindsey Street. Lindsey Street is...
by OU IQC | Oct 27, 2016 | Blog, Featured Posts, Muskogee
Urban renewal policies of the mid-20th Century were not limited to major cities. Regional cities and small towns also implemented urban renewal programs. This post shows five cities of under 100,000 in population that built central shopping malls as part of Urban...
by OU IQC | Oct 24, 2016 | Blog, Featured Posts, Muskogee
As in many cities, the central part of Muskogee has lost population over the last several decades. In the 1970 Census, four central neighborhoods accounted for 18,000 people- Nearly half of Muskogee’s 1970 population of 37,000. However, by 2010, the Census...
