by OU IQC | Nov 18, 2014 | Blog, Featured Posts
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....
by OU IQC | Nov 3, 2014 | Blog, Featured Posts
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...
by Shane Hampton | Oct 6, 2014 | Blog, Featured Posts
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 built...
by Shane Hampton | Sep 8, 2014 | Blog, Featured Posts
In a hot summer climate, shade is an important part of making people comfortable outside. When famed photographer Dorothea Lange visited Sallisaw, Oklahoma in August of 1936, she noticed farmers were gathered on the shady side of the street to sit or stand in groups...
by Shane Hampton | Aug 11, 2014 | Blog, Featured Posts
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation is experimenting with a new way to make crosswalks more visible to motorists. This is welcome news, since many of Oklahoma’s state highways travel through walkable residential neighborhoods and main streets. A Safer...
by Shane Hampton | Jul 3, 2014 | Blog, Featured Posts
Ongoing renovations of 1920s and 1930s commercial buildings in Oklahoma City have been revealing buried architectural treasures in the last few months. “Updated” facade treatments applied decades ago are being stripped away, revealing that they have been...
