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Reviews

Looking back at Jane Jacobs’ prophetic chronicle of geo-urbanism, Dark Age Ahead

December 5, 2019

More than five decades ago, author Jane Jacobs produced what was to become a foundational...

Austin may condemn its sordid history — it should condemn its troubled present

November 1, 2019

Like so many authors and observers, Andrew M. Busch details Austin’s much-discussed and most obvious...

Austin’s challenge: a common language of environmental sustainability

October 31, 2019

“Shadows in a Sunbelt City” is a book of many unique insights and analogies. Most are sure to be controversial. In just one of them, author Elliot M. Tretter offers up the very different understandings in Austin of the meaning of “environment.”