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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.

The Renewal Series

Back to school: An education system riven by failure, inequity and injustice revealed by COVID-19

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What follows below, synthesized and condensed, are brief, one-minute clips of the...
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The Renewal Series

How COVID-19 has robbed children of pediatric visits, parents of child care and students of social interaction

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Healthy moms, healthy dads, a healthy birth and having a strong, healthy...
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Austin’s segregation mirrored in the devastating burden COVID-19 imposes on city’s poor, uninsured and yet ‘essential’

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Long before the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic began their spread across...
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Why plans by Austin and other cities to reimagine public safety don’t literally intend to ‘Defund the Police’

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The Austin City Council’s recent decision to reduce the police department’s budget by about 5 percent represents an opening salvo in national...
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How to make America radical again (and how to remember that in fact it always has been)

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In this wide-ranging conversation, Urbānitūs Associate Editor Robert Brehm and Professor Harvey J. Kaye thumb through the pages of Take Hold of...
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Texas Gov. Abbott’s “Back the Blue” pledge to seize Austin’s police department is a return to Jim Crow

Justice Matters Jeremi Suri -
In March 1956 the elected leaders of the Southern states pledged to defend school segregation, despite civil rights pressures and Supreme Court...
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Back to school: An education system riven by failure, inequity and injustice revealed by COVID-19

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What follows below, synthesized and condensed, are brief, one-minute clips of the arguments made by a broad spectrum of panelists from an...
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Beyond the pandemic, look for Austin’s creative energy to rival the ‘Roaring Twenties’ of a century ago

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Not so fast, argues the head of iconic Austin City Limits to those who fear the pandemic will sweep away both the...
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The radical remaking of Austin’s ...

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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...
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On cities, primary colors and the meaning of ‘geo-urbanism’

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“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...
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On cities’ ‘OK boomer’ face-off with state and national governments

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Let’s call it the infantilization of cities. It’s more than a little ironic: as cities are handed ever more responsibility,...
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Gentrification is not a byproduct of planned urban growth, it is the plan

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

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In early November, Austin voters nixed a proposal to rethink the Austin Convention Center and skirmishes at the ballot box are surely...
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