by OU IQC | Feb 3, 2017 | Featured Posts, Muskogee
We traveled to Muskogee Wednesday with a group of 30 faculty, staff, and students to kick off a design competition focusing on the connections between Arrowhead Mall, an urban renewal era project, and downtown Muskogee. Students in Dr. Sarah Little’s landscape...
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 | 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...
by OU Urban Design Studio | Sep 21, 2016 | Blog, Featured Posts, Muskogee
Symbolic Sequence of Planning Process We call this planning effort Downtown Muskogee: A Landscape of Hope. What is a hopeful city? How is hopefulness of a people related to the growth of a town? Can we make a plan based on hope? Collective hope is not the same as...
