• Legacy Project focuses on historic Black theater

    The Jewel Theatre is a 1931 brick building with Deco details on 4 th Street of Oklahoma City—the only building left standing on what was once a thriving main street block in a Black business district. The Jewel Theatre operated from the 1930s through the 1970s, and is now a deteriorating shell...Read more

  • Hammond, Indiana, and a more walkable USA

    A film segment tells the story of an American city, its struggles, and a future revitalized by urban design.
    The video below is a segment of a larger documentary, not yet released, called Walkable USA. This film tells the compelling story of Hammond, Indiana, a rust belt city that once had a great downtown, and intends to have one again. Walkable USA - Proof of Concept from House Painter Media on Vimeo ...Read more

  • Fighting to save a troubled city

    A documentary on Youngstown, Ohio, won top prize at the Better Cities Film Festival in Detroit.
    A feature film on Youngstown, Ohio, a city that exemplifies industrial decline, won the Grand Prize Best Feature Film award in 2021 from the Better Cities Film Festival . The Place That Makes Us , honored in Detroit this week, tells the story of people who stayed in Youngstown and worked to rebuild...Read more

  • Ten political benefits of walkable places

    This is fourth in a series of articles on the advantages of building human-scale cities and towns.
    There are many benefits to building walkable places and complete neighborhoods, backed up by research and common sense. A research report called Cities Alive by Arup, a multinational engineering and design firm, enumerated 50 advantages of walkable places. This article, the fourth in a series, is...Read more