Five Things to Like and Five to Improve for the North Shoal Creek...
Susan Somers is a north Austin resident near the North Shoal Creek area, President of urbanist organization AURA, and the genius gif editor who made this blog’s most famous piece pounce. The city...
View Article6 things to like in California’s proposed transit housing law, illustrated by...
On January 4, California felt two earthquakes. The first was a conventional and thankfully weak earthquake in Berkeley: The Did You Feel It? survey form for the Berkeley, CA M4.4 EQ is back up and...
View ArticleWest Campus’ remarkable growth, charted
This blog has something of an obsession with West Campus. It’s the neighborhood that lives by upside-down, inside-out rules and it’s a window into the Austin that could be. So when we got a hold of...
View ArticleDoes transportation serve people or do people serve transportation?
No big city has solved either of two problems: making car traffic flow smoothly or making parking simple and cheap. The issue isn’t that governments in every city are bad, though sometimes they are, or...
View ArticleOpportunity Kicks
The hottest political topic in Austin right now is a proposal by the owner of the Major League Soccer franchise Columbus Crew to lease space on a city-owned parcel in North Austin. To see the more...
View ArticleFive Alternatives to Giant Parking Plinths
Last year, I sketched out why downtown has so many huge parking plinths. But another world is possible! Today, we’ll check out alternatives to the plinth. Then, coming soon, we’ll have a look at how...
View ArticleThe regulations we need to #parktheplinth
Last post, I talked about physical alternatives that would let us #parktheplinth. Or in normal terms, ways to build downtown towers that don’t have giant parking plinths. Before that, I also discussed...
View ArticleWest Campus Two Point Ohhhhh Yeahhhhh!
I may have written about West Campus a time or two before. But this time I come not to praise West Campus, but to bury it — in new developments! On Thursday, October 3, Austin’s City Council will...
View ArticleAffordability Unlocked and Its Impact (Part 2)
Today, we continue with part 2 of our guest post about Affordability Unlocked by Brian Poteet. All of the projects we discussed in Part 1will make a dent in Austin’s ever-escalating affordability...
View Article2024 Austin Policy Wishlist
I apologize for the short five-year break in posting! I’ve been keeping busy with a job that now requires me to work during the hours they pay me for, a volunteer gig at Texans for Housing, and a...
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