International house of visitors
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcFPU5-S_oE]On the morning of the great flood of 2010, rather, the “significant rain event” as our Water Resources Director John Harrington calls it, our staff hosted a team of leaders and...
Welcome mayors, our doors are open!
If you’re downtown this week, be sure to come to a complete stop at crosswalks and get ready to wear your friendly hat. Starting Thursday, and running through June 14, mayors from over 36 states across the United States will be converging...
Get together, GetAround, and win breakfast on us!
We thought we would experiment with social media and see how it can help draw attention to our regional rideshare program, GetAroundOK. We have about 600 subscribers, and we would like to have 1,000 by the end of summer. Right now, the...
Changing the world, one light “bulb” at a time
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUWtGNNG4q4]Those “swirly bulbs” that look like a pig’s tail have moved beyond novelty. When we hand these out at public events, people come clamoring for them as if we were handing out candy. A...
Scenes from Bike to Work Day 2010
Thanks to everyone who helped make Bike to Work Day 2010 happen. Thank you to city staff from Oklahoma City, Edmond, Midwest City, Moore, Yukon, Guthrie and Norman. Brown's Bakery provided refreshments in OKC, and Schlegal Bicycles, Pro...
Perfect weather guaranteed: Bike to Work Day set for Friday
Six years ago, we convened a group of city planners, bike enthusiasts and health advocates to start planning a regional Bike to Work Day event. Every year, we would read with envy about Denver’s Bike to Work Day events and how they would...
Planning for a healthy future
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPBl04ub1oA]The City of Oklahoma City launched its latest comprehensive plan process in May. The goal of the plan is to ensure a healthy environment, community, and economy for its residents, with...
Pei-ving the way for downtown OKC
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwrd_07GUCA]In 1964, architect I.M. Pei was commissioned by the Urban Action Foundation to launch an urban renewal plan for Oklahoma City. Pei’s ambitious plan included a vision of a “city of...
The “Bridges of Canadian County”
Robert Kincaid wasn’t there to take photographs, but a host of luminaries, led by Canadian County Commissioner Phil Carson, were present at a ribbon-cutting for a new bridge on Sara Rd NE south of Azalea NE/248th/Waterloo Road. Funded...
Gangsta Wrap
I think there's a Chinese proverb that says, "he who pranks, gets pranked sevenfold." This is what happens when you leave the office for four days. And my colleagues wonder why I never go anywhere. I had gone to Arlington, TX for a week...
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