Pat Smith
@cityresearch.bsky.social
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cities, data stuff, louisville
rainy day demolition work on the former Urban Government Center.... abandoned by Louisville Metro a decade ago
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tucking this image of the official "2017 Colonial Gardens Redevelopment Groundbreaking hat with the Dan Johnson embroidery signature" here for safekeeping
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they gentrified Bologna sandwiches
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about 1 month ago
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continuing the Gatlinburgization of a historic neighborhood in Louisville
about 1 month ago
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The Atlantic
4 months ago
When Stephen Starring Grant was laid off, he moved home and spent a year as a rural postal worker. His memoir is a lament for the decline of service as an American ideal, Tyler Austin Harper argues.
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Memoir of a Mailman
A new book describes the challenges and joys of life as a letter carrier.
https://bit.ly/4mtwoss
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Joe Sonka 😐
4 months ago
My latest here. Notable that less than an hour before this group released their report, legislators touted the awarding of a massive $147 million road paving contract... that only had a single bid. Details in story.
#kyga25
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"It's on the Louisville postcard. You can't get away from it. It's [in] the backdrop of every newscast, every national piece that's done in Louisville, it can't sit empty. It's a natural redevelopment of hospitality, residential, you could even sell condos in it"
www.bizjournals.com/louisville/n...
4 months ago
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Sean Willis
4 months ago
oh lord
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JD
4 months ago
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celebrating over a decade of the Fiesta Bonita dinner special at El Tarasco on Preston
4 months ago
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Tessa Duvall
6 months ago
The last Kentucky Senate Democrat not from Louisville or Lexington has switched parties, announcing that she's becoming a Republican. “While it’s cliché, it’s true: I didn’t leave the party — the party left me.”
www.kentucky.com/news/politic...
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Robin Webb, last Eastern Kentucky Democrat in state Senate, switches parties
“I rarely get the feeling that they’re trying to engage people like me,” Webb previously said of the Democratic party.
https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article307455551.html
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when the spot has options
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interesting "Letter from Louisville" in this month's 175th anniversary issue of
@harpers.bsky.social
connecting the Old National bank mass shooting, West End investment, Quintez Brown, and Kentucky's "powerful Daddies"
harpers.org/archive/2025...
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Sons of Good Fathers, by Jonathon Sturgeon
On some killings in Kentucky
https://harpers.org/archive/2025/06/sons-of-good-fathers-jonathon-sturgeon-kentucky-killings/
6 months ago
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"Louisville, Kentucky’s pricing of the I-65 bridges has reduced traffic by half on I-65, and lowered total crossings of the Ohio River by 15 percent. "
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8 months ago
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bring back the Louisville Falls Fountain
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DtK...
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Falls City: Story of the Louisville Falls Fountain 1994 *RARE* Documentary
YouTube video by mudvayneimn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DtKYZvdHz8
8 months ago
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me when the Cards are down any amount of points
9 months ago
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ahhh yes private equity... a sector famously known for reinvesting in communities
9 months ago
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The Overhead Wire
10 months ago
This move by companies to the suburbs is a direct transfer of wealth away from employees and to employers. It makes commutes more expensive and risky, it reduces agglomeration and the ability to job switch, and it pits cities against each other in a property and sales tax race to the bottom.
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"Smoketown is the last existing neighborhood in Louisville that was founded by formerly enslaved African Americans just after the Civil War." great piece from Michael L. Jones – Louisville Business First
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https://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/news/2025/02/07/smoketown-history-and-growth.html
10 months ago
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from Ward Jolles at WAVE 3 NEWS - "Demo work is beginning over at the old Urban Government Center. Demo company owner tells me they were just granted the demo permit this morning at 10. "
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what if we fixed the Barret & Ellison intersection? 🎥 from
@michaelmobility.bsky.social
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10 months ago
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nice graphic from Cincinnati Enquirer data journalist Elizabeth B. Kim using data from
@evictionlab.bsky.social
www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...
11 months ago
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its hard out there for a shareholder
11 months ago
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tryna catch a bus in Louisville rn
11 months ago
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Courier Journal's architecture critic in 1978... 🥴
11 months ago
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The Overhead Wire
about 1 year ago
Hey everyone! For those who might not be familiar with our work, The Overhead Wire is a daily newsletter that's been sending since 2006. We go through about 1,500 news items on cities each day and pull out the most interesting ones and tag them by topic and city for our link archive. (1/x)
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cool graphic of neu health grifters from
@nymag.com
nymag.com/intelligence...
12 months ago
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"Why have a planning commission? Why incur the expense of the planning commission? Why have a staff that's trained to look at development to make sure that they fit with all the codes and (regulations)? Why do that if you're going to overturn their decision?"
www.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...
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Metro Council blocks apartments in south Louisville for a second time
The proposed development would have included apartments, single-family homes and townhomes.
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2024/12/16/metro-council-denies-rezoning-for-ldg-apartments-in-south-louisville/76885811007/?taid=67602ee028e48e000138b1e9&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
12 months ago
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mtsw
12 months ago
2005 is also right around when housing production (already low in some of our wealthiest cities) cratered and never recovered to pre-GFC levels
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Streetsblog USA
12 months ago
Cities like Atlanta, Denver and Minneapolis provide blueprints for how transit can improve neighborhoods without pushing people out.
usa.streetsblog.org/2024/12/11/w...
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Wednesday's Headlines Are Staying Put — Streetsblog USA
Cities like Atlanta, Denver and Minneapolis provide blueprints for how transit can improve neighborhoods without pushing people out.
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/12/11/wednesdays-headlines-are-staying-put
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Louisville Clinic Escorts
12 months ago
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♫♫ your own.... personal... speed humps ♪♪
www.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...
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Decision on ethics complaint against Louisville Metro councilwoman delayed
A constituent of Purvis' district argues she made a concerted effort to not put speed humps on his street, despite a study showing a need for them.
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2024/12/10/donna-purvis-ethics-complaint-no-verdict-reached-in-speed-humps-case/76861968007/
12 months ago
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🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦
12 months ago
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Louisville mentioned 🏇🏼🥃
12 months ago
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robmolou
about 1 year ago
New banner just dropped, free to use
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"Nobody's listening. Nobody cares."
www.whas11.com/article/news...
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Community members frustrated after Metro Council tables semi ban ordinance
Residents stormed out of the Metro Council chambers after the Public Works Committee tables ordinance restricting heavy trucks from passing through Old Louisville.
https://www.whas11.com/article/news/local/metro-council-semi-ban-ordiance-old-louisville-kentucky/417-f213add9-5863-4481-89ed-04e18ca3c062
about 1 year ago
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love to bop to a headbanger about not bothering women at the club
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Ne Touche Pas Moi
IDLES · Ultra Mono · Song · 2020
https://open.spotify.com/track/7iUOxgnRl2NUYln5nQXhCw?si=RuUNzQS1TNyrz1Vt-zge1A&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A20O6GKv8VfyvL4Gy0TAJs7
about 1 year ago
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new Louisville flip disaster just dropped
about 1 year ago
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lol
about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
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Louisville street railways through the years
about 1 year ago
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Stacy Mitchell
about 1 year ago
1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.
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The Mystery of Food Deserts
They didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/food-deserts-robinson-patman/680765/?gift=QFVDFKVE3HQ31cU_KmT1dE6iUvq0qv3pUv2sTwMbqdQ&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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"If General Motors and Dan Gilbert can’t secure the public funding they say they need to revamp the struggling Renaissance Center, the automaker says it’s prepared to demolish the five towers"
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‘Extortion’ tactic: GM panned for floating five-tower RenCen demo if tax breaks rejected
The automaker confirms its backup plan after bipartisan pushback against allocating public money for a RenCen revamp.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2024/12/01/gm-tear-down-rencen-towers-subsidies-rejected/76658555007/
about 1 year ago
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holy shit i think we are back
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about 1 year ago
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"The governor of Pennsylvania is demanding that his state's Department of Transportation use money originally intended for highways to save the state's largest transit system"
usa.streetsblog.org/2024/11/27/p...
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Pennsylvania Shifted Cash From Highways to Transit – But Other States Could Go Even Further — Streetsblog USA
"If your governor says they don't have money for transit, they are lying," said one advocate.
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/11/27/pennsylvania-shifted-cash-from-highways-to-transit-but-other-states-could-go-even-further
about 1 year ago
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Streetsblog USA
about 1 year ago
Dozens of red states sued to stop the release of their state transportation emissions data. A new report gives a glimpse into what they were trying to hide.
@keawilson.bsky.social
explains:
usa.streetsblog.org/2024/11/19/m...
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The Emissions Data GOP Pols Don't Want Americans To See — Streetsblog USA
We are going in the wrong direction.
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/11/19/many-state-transportation-emissions-rise-as-gop-pols-dont-want-us-to-the-data
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The Urbanist
about 1 year ago
A new study found co-living congregate housing could spur conversions of vacant offices, which are much costlier to convert to conventional housing. It could also return Seattle to its affordable single-room occupancy roots. Story:
www.theurbanist.org/2024/11/21/t...
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Joe Sonka 😐
about 1 year ago
Kentucky League of Women Voters puts out new report showing state legislature continues to fast track bills and obstruct public participation.
#kyga25
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Kentucky legislature continues to fast track bills, obstruct public participation, report finds
The League of Women Voters of Kentucky released a report showing the legislature continues to rely on fast-tracking maneuvers to push bills through this session, limiting public input.
https://www.lpm.org/news/2024-11-20/kentucky-legislature-continues-to-fast-track-bills-obstruct-public-participation-report-finds
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wherein Stephen Reily opines that manufacturing is the way to reverse Louisville's decline
www.courier-journal.com/story/opinio...
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50 years after Louisville’s profile in The New Yorker, what’s changed? Not much. | Opinion
Since 1974, every other major city in our region (Indianapolis, Nashville, Cincinnati, Columbus) has outpaced Louisville in growth and vitality.
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/columnists/2024/11/21/louisville-growth-development-downtown-riverfront-new-yorker-1974/76408113007
about 1 year ago
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