Denver Urbanism
Eventually, however, we discovered that some uses weren’t all that appropriate next to each other. Do we really want kids going to school across the street from a factory belching out black coal smoke? So the idea of zoning was invented to separate land uses into different geographic zones in the city: housing goes over here, offices go over there, and factories go way over there. By the 1950s, this idea had become immensely popular and virtually every city in America was growing with all of its different uses segregated into different zones.
One-way streets were all the rage back in the mid- and late-20th century. Dozens of two-way streets in Denver’s urban core were converted to one-ways, giving us a confusing maze of one-way streets intersecting with other one-way streets that baffle all but the most experienced Downtown drivers
One of the nation’s largest rail transit systems is being built right now in the Mile High City.
Having a lot of transportation options is an important part of urbanism, and one of the reasons why Denver’s center city population is exploding
The record is really quite amazing! Here’s a list I’ve compiled of civic investments approved by City and County of Denver voters over just the past 15 years
