Patrick Piuma

Urban designer prototyping the built environment w/focus on placemaking, urban ecology and health • posts are 100% my own opinions

[Patrick Piuma @PatrickPiuma]

My cousin died on a bench in New York. I wasn’t there so I don’t know, but sounds like if people would have taken a little time to help he would still be alive. RIP Philip.
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[Patrick Piuma @PatrickPiuma]

How do we make Downtown Louisville’s public spaces feel more connected and create a great pedestrian experience? The UDS just posted a study we are calling the Downtown Open Space Network to try to jumpstart the conversation.

https://t.co/Wd8iBhuiQ1

[Patrick Piuma @PatrickPiuma]

Join David Toda, Morgan Dunay and I this Saturday at 10 am for coffee, conversation and a tour of the Trager MicroForest. The event is free but space is limited, so please register via the link. Hope to see you this Saturday! https://t.co/Jd2Fm78UsY
@UofLEnvirome @SustainLou

[Patrick Piuma @PatrickPiuma]

@WillBogel We’ve lost a lot and apparently still haven’t learned that these historic buildings are what makes the core of our city interesting for pedestrian activity. People don’t come downtown to walk past surface lots and blank walls. We are finishing what urban renewal didn’t get.

[Patrick Piuma @PatrickPiuma]

With the recent news of plans for the historic OddFellows building site, I was reminded of a piece I wrote back in 2021 that essentially asked, "what will future generations of Louisvillians think about what we have left them?" https://t.co/fbgdRWmtXT

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What if we could really green downtown? If I play with it some more I’d make the south lanes going the other way to restore the 2-way street.

#greenprint #Louisville

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Some work we started at the UofL Urban Design Studio during the pandemic to map the historic corner store buildings, the cornerstones of our communities, was featured in Planning Magazine. https://t.co/8xuOZ3zBZn

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Ground lighting is up and running at the Trager MicroForest

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Ground effects lighting test in the MicroForest today!

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New lighting is up at the Trager MicroForest. Soon the rest of the 65 trees and pathway will be complete and the ground lighting will really set the space off. Cannot wait to get the space open again!

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elicopter circling over the Watterson Expressway and Belknap Neighborhood.

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Another great urbanist walking tour in the books. Sharing different corners of our community with the people who live in and work to make them better has been energizing and gives hope for the future of our city. Here is a recap from our NULU expedition.

https://t.co/PnO2OTY5c5

[Patrick Piuma @PatrickPiuma]

It was great to spend Saturday at the Trager MicroForest and see trees going in. So many more trees on the way!

[Urban Design Studio @UDStudioLou]

A lot of activity this past weekend at the Trager MicroForest. First delivery and planting of trees.

https://t.co/DlppG2FjO5

[Patrick Piuma @PatrickPiuma]

The next Society of Urban Perambulators (SouP) event will be in the booming NULU commercial district on Nov. 16th. If you are interested in joining us on this free urbanist walk, please send me a message so I can add you to the RSVP list. https://t.co/qwOcN5pUPa

[Patrick Piuma @PatrickPiuma]

Is this a new impound lot downtown? What is with the razor wire? The new metal angled fence wasn’t enough?

[Patrick Piuma @PatrickPiuma]

@cityresearch @holz_bau @Tedsmithphd Knowing that the most concentrated pollution is within 500 feet of a major highway, I guess you would never be able to open your windows here. Nowhere to put trees to mitigate the pollution either.

[Patrick Piuma @PatrickPiuma]

The Market Street streetscape revitalization project we were prototyping that day finally started construction this year, though sadly Olmsted's treed median component did not make it into the final redesign.
https://t.co/xqWwIOiSNk

[Mike Lydon (mikelydon.bsky.social) @MikeLydon]

@stevemouzon @IbnKhaldune @TheBetterBlock Doop Dee Doop Dee Doo… don’t mind us… just simulating a planted median…(Louisville, circa 2013 with @cityresearch @PatrickPiuma etc.) Nurseries are great partners!

[Patrick Piuma @PatrickPiuma]

Today is a two-fer in the UDS Field Notes. Along with Caleb Brook's piece on speeding and historic preservation, our own @allhopeissean uncovers some of the history surrounding A New Vision of Health Campus in the heart of downtown. https://t.co/4G9E1MbiHq

[Patrick Piuma @PatrickPiuma]

I always envisioned the Field Notes of the UofL Urban Design Studio to be a place to share thoughts and ideas about cities from a variety of voices, and today I'm excited to share a great piece of writing by Caleb Brooks. Please enjoy.
https://t.co/lHT86HOBa9

[Patrick Piuma @PatrickPiuma]

I hope the new study can shine a light on some of the past plans for the area that had great ideas that were never realized. I was a kid in Philly when there was a proposal for a treed median on Northwest Parkway. Had that been done then, there would be a lush tree canopy today.

[UofL's Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute @UofLEnvirome]

Patrick Piuma, leader of the Envirome Institute's Urban Design Studio, weighs in on the history of #redlining that contributed to the placement of I-64 and efforts to improve Ohio River access for residents of the Portland neighborhood in Louisville. @stadsbeeld @uofl