News & Happenings
Livable Cities Studio completes Outdoor Adventure and Alternative Sports Master Plan
Livable Cities Studio is thrilled to celebrate the completion of Denver Parks and Recreation’s (DPR) first Outdoor Adventure and Alternative Sports Strategic Plan (OAAS) . The plan creates a 20-year strategic framework that diversifies current recreation opportunities...
Meredith named a Titan in Colorado Titan 100 Award!
This award program recognizes Colorado’s Top 100 CEO’s & C-level executives who are working diligently to shape the future of the Colorado business community. The Titan 100 are seen as the area’s most accomplished business leaders in their industry using criteria that includes demonstrating exceptional leadership, vision, and passion.
2021 Promotions!
Livable Cities Studio is excited to celebrate the promotions of Yishuen Lo to Associate and Will Viitanen to Senior Associate.Both have used their talents to uplift the firm and our projects through their enthusiasm, ensuring design excellence, pushing innovation, and elevating our studio culture. They are effective not only because of their great work but because they focus on making meaningful contributions in ways that help people and communities grow stronger. Congratulations!
Can the public realm revitalize Downtown Denver now, and make it even more vibrant in the future?
Can the public realm revitalize Downtown now, and make it even more vibrant in the future? Great cities are places for people and are defined by the diversity and animation of public life in its streets, plazas, and parks. Two recent articles in the @Denver Post and @Denver Business Journal illustrate the resiliency of our Downtown Denver, but also its current challenges. As people return to workplaces and restaurants, our team explores how creative investment in the public realm can accelerate our recovery and make Denver more vibrant, resilient, and equitable for the future.
The New Public Realm – Part 2
Rethinking Streets The pandemic has instigated a shift in thinking about public spaces in our cities. Out of necessity for health, safety, and economic recovery, cities around the nation have created ‘open streets’ – meaning streets that are open to people because...
The New Public Realm –Shifts in the Design of Public Spaces
We are witnessing in a shift in thinking about public spaces in our cities. The pandemic has highlighted deficiencies and inequities, and demonstrated the importance of parks, open spaces, and streets for socializing, recreation, health, and mobility. Additionally,...
The Role of Design in Creating Healthy Cities
The pandemic has been a shocking change to our normal way of life. It has overwhelmed our front-line workers, pushed the capacity of our health care system to its limits, and revealed how deep-rooted inequities pose even greater challenges for people of lower income and others who have historically had less power or privilege. Cities everywhere are facing a health…
LCS Completes High Line Canal Framework Plan
This weekend the Livable Cities team joined with the High Line Canal Conservancy and our sub-consulting design partners, Agency Landscape + Planning and Sasaki Associates, to celebrate the completion of the High Line Canal Framework Plan. The High Line Canal is a...
LCS on Team Selected to Plan Portions of Denver Airport’s 53 Developable Square Miles
Livable Cities Studio has been selected as a member of a large interdisciplinary team to plan two key portions of DEN’s developable land along Peña Boulevard, the airport’s major thoroughfare.
Virtual Reality Changing the Landscape Architecture Design Process
Livable Cities Studio’s Yishuen Lo recently partnered with another emerging professional, Anna Dillé, to present the latest in virtual reality technology at the Rocky Mountain Region’s ProGreen EXPO.
Platte to Park Hill Project Featured in Industry Magazine
Our "Platte to Park Hill" program is a combination of four projects which LCS is developing alongside the City of Denver and our collaborative partners Matrix Design Group, Felsburg, Holt and Ullevig and many others, all aimed at setting Denver up for a successful...
LCS President Named To Most Influential Young Professionals List
We are excited to announce that our President and Founder, Meredith Wenskoski, was named one of the Top 25 Most Influential Young Professionals by Colorado Biz Magazine. You can read more about the award here. Meredith has made a name for herself in Metro Denver...
What Are Those Cute Green Dogs All Over Denver Union Station Neighborhood?
Did you know the Union Station neighborhood is home to nearly 1,200 dogs? Colorado is best known for the outdoors and mountains. Sure, we love our trees, but we also love our dogs! As more and more millennials move to Denver, living downtown with...
What does the future hold for the lowest income neighborhood in Denver?
Located a few miles from downtown and just south of Mile High Stadium, Sun Valley is the lowest income neighborhood in Denver and is a story of diverse groups of people and evolving communities, from Mexican to Jewish, Vietnamese and Somali. For almost a...
LCS Staff as ASLA CO Emerging Professional Chair
We are excited to announce that our own Conrey Morris, Livable Cities designer of 1 year, has taken a role in ASLA Colorado leadership as Emerging Professionals (EP) Chair. Conrey will serve as the bridge between students, professionals just starting their...
NOW! Annual Conference – October 3-5, 2018
This October, Meredith Wenskoski, President of Livable Cities Studio, will be traveling to Vail, CO to speak at the NOW! Annual Conference – Housing Colorado’s signature event that gathers affordable housing professionals from across Colorado and the...
LCS on CSU Capstone Project Jury
Each year, Colorado State University Landscape Architecture seniors embark on a semester long studio focused on their final capstone project, culminating in a series of presentations that are juried by local professionals. LCS’s Principal, Todd Wenksoski,...
Protect a Tree from Pee – LCS Featured in the News!
Livable Cities is working with the Central Platte Valley Metropolitan District to develop a strategy to address Denver’s growing problem with dog pee in parks and streetscapes in developing urban neighborhoods. With a roughly estimated 1,200 dogs about to...
LCS Staff Presents at Texas ASLA Conference
Yishuen Lo, Landscape Designer and Visual Communications Lead, presented at the 2018 Texas ASLA Conference held in Galveston, TX this past April. As an industry leader in 3D Modeling Orientation and Virtual Reality, Yishuen’s presentation “Virtual Reality...
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