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Photo by Carol Highsmith via Wikicommons From our regular columns on the changing role of governance in world-leading cities, to reviews of books exploring these themes, View & Reviews is our space set aside for provocative urban thought and action.

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

urbanitus - 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

urbanitus - 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.”

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