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The Renewal Series

In our ongoing series Renewal – Beyond COVID-19 we explore how Austin is rising to the inescapable challenge of renewing civic life, culture and institutions toward the other side of the pandemic called COVID-19.

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A kaleidoscopic moment shapes a new mosaic, as forces conspire to create a social new order

Michael Shear -
Children, inescapably, have a fascination with kaleidoscopes. They don’t need to know that the...
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The just society and knowledge economy now towering on the post-pandemic horizon

Brett A. Hurt -
In the classical Greek myth, Pandora opened her infamous box, releasing death, destruction, and...
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As the fog at last lifts, the future begins to arrive much sooner than we ever expected

Brett A. Hurt -
Acceptance is not surrender. That idea seems such a clear aphorism. Accepting what we cannot...
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A Texas city leader’s account of local realpolitik, political favor, and cynical manipulation

Reviews Craig D. Pedersen -
Review: Greedy Bastards – One City’s Texas-Size Struggle to Avoid a Financial Crisis, by Sheryl Sculley, 2020, 211 pp., Lioncrest Publications Joint editor’s note: Like...
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Texas Iced: The culprit of Texas’ power misery is energy price policy — not wind, not gas, not nuclear power

Tales of the Global City Christopher Andrés Matos (He/Him/His) -
When all is said and done, the one big takeaway from Texas’ week of freezing agony amid a power blackout is that recovery will...
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State of the City – How Paris foreshadowed today’s urban politics of displacement and segregation

Tales of the Global City Isabelle S. Headrick -
Review: Paris – Capital of Modernity, by David Harvey, 2006, 230 pp., Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group Joint editor’s note: Like so many cities, Austin...
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A ‘Clean Slate’ law to make Texas’ justice system fairer would also reduce odds of future crime

Justice Matters Barry Kahn -
Reentry. It sounds simple enough. Once someone is released from prison, they need to reenter society. Popular culture often discusses this psychological and social...
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A small piece of a big law, the ransacking of the Capitol, and the uncertain future of Big Tech

Justice Matters Cathy Boggs -
Talk about timing. On Jan. 7, 2021, less than 24 hours following the attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Los Angeles Times published a defense...
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The radical remaking of Austin’s ...

Monograph David Judson -
For a glimpse of the future of water in fast-growing Austin and Central Texas, don’t look to the past of reengineered rivers, multi-dam reservoirs and centralized treatment...
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On cities, primary colors and the meaning of ‘geo-urbanism’

Uruk David Judson -
“Urbānitūs – the magazine of geo-urbanism” is frankly not a journal for the faint-hearted. At 6,000 words plus, our adjacent opening day monograph on the urban...
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On cities’ ‘OK boomer’ face-off with state and national governments

Uruk David Judson -
Let’s call it the infantilization of cities. It’s more than a little ironic: as cities are handed ever more responsibility, and grow ever more assertive in...
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Gentrification is not a byproduct of planned urban growth, it is the plan

Econoquarks Barry Kahn -
Among those living in Austin since the turn of the century, one is constantly confronted by the bracing reality of gentrification. It is, so the consensus...
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Dogs to roads to human rights — Austin’s direct democracy decades

Overstory David Judson -
In early November, Austin voters nixed a proposal to rethink the Austin Convention Center and skirmishes at the ballot box are surely brewing for...
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