Randy traveled to Kansas City for the New Partners for Smart Growth Conference last month and has the photos to prove it. Check out the images from his wanderings around KC’s urban core. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: PHOTOS: Kansas City’s Surprisingly Gritty Urban Core
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The race for America’s fastest broadband speeds. Last year Google selected Kansas City as the location for its first attempt to connect homes to its own fiber-optic network. Other than Kansas City, New York City is also trying to ramp up its Internet speeds to compete with cities like Amsterdam, Barcelona, Moscow, Singapore and Toronto. [...] . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: The race for America’s fastest broadband speeds The Commons is an alleyway that runs West from Baltimore Ave., between 10th and 11th Sts. in downtown Kansas City. It’s a public meeting and resting place whose design elements recall the landscape before the encroachment of people. Julia Cole and Leigh Rosser, the artists behind this project, claim, “With this work we are testing [...] . . . → Read More: Visualingual: The Commons in Kansas City, MO Located at 423 Central Avenue NW, the KiMo Theater is one of Albuquerque’s most famous landmarks, designed by Carl Boller in 1927. It is an elaborately decorated three-story stucco building in the Pueblo Deco style. Carl Boller was one half of the Kansas City-based architectural firm that designed the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, among [...] . . . → Read More: Visualingual: KiMo Theater by Carl Boller The Lensic Theater is located at 211 West San Francisco St. in Santa Fe. It was designed in a pseudo-Moorish, Spanish Renaissance style by the Boller Brothers, a Kansas City-based architecture firm that specialized in movie theaters and vaudeville houses. The theater opened in 1931. The original owners were Nathan Salmon and E. John Greer, [...] . . . → Read More: Visualingual: Lensic Theater by the Boller Brothers Peck’s [actually the George B. Peck Dry Goods Company Building] is located at 1044 Main St. in Kansas City, MO in a former shopping area known as Petticoat Lane, in what is now the West Ninth Street-Baltimore Avenue Historic District. The classically-inspired “commercial style” building was designed in 1914 by the Kansas City-based architecture firm [...] . . . → Read More: Visualingual: Peck’s Ghost Sign in Kansas City, MO The Baker-Vawter Building, designed by Hoit, Price and Barnes, is located at 915-917 Wyandotte St. in Kansas City, MO. It is now called Lofts at 917, but the ghost sign on the side and the name on the front façade remain. Those windows are amazing. … . . . → Read More: Visualingual: Baker-Vawter Ghost Sign in Kansas City, MO This is specifically to the fine states of Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, California, Arizona, Texas, and Oklahoma — thank you all so much for your hospitality over the past couple of weeks. We had a fine time on your roads, from interstates to dirt roads to a bit of Route 66. Your natural [...] . . . → Read More: Visualingual: An Open Letter to the Western Half of the United States |
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