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.
Democracy, Winston Churchill once said, “is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried.” Treatises have been...
Editor’s note: This is one in an ongoing series of essays and analyses Urbānitūs will publish reflecting the diversity of perspectives on the future of...
Editor’s note: This is one in an ongoing series of essays and analyses Urbānitūs will publish reflecting the diversity of perspectives on the future...
If Texas is to continue its dramatic growth economically and demographically, slow-moving state lawmakers need to get out of the way of the fast-moving...
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...
“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...
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...
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...