Tales of the Global City

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Our long-form section Tales of the Global City is where we examine the deep animators of urban life and civic history in our city along with the ways Austin aligns with others also shouldering the new responsibilities of global leadership.

A conversation with urban designer Ken Greenberg on ways COVID-19 is forcing us to reimagine cities and community

urbanitus - June 15, 2020

The challenges to cities posed by the COVID-19 epidemic are enormous, argues Canadian urban...

Austin and the future of water

David Judson - April 26, 2020

For a glimpse of the future of water in fast-growing Austin and Central Texas,...

The ‘Hanging Gardens’ on ‘America’s Tigris’

urbanitus - April 26, 2020

If the westernmost Colorado River draining seven states is sometimes called “America’s Nile,” its...

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Tales of the Global City

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The just society and knowledge economy now towering on the post-pandemic horizon

As the fog at last lifts, the future begins to arrive much sooner than we ever expected

As the pandemic becomes more dire, a fog of sorrow coils around life amid COVID-19

Spotting the new horizon after weeks of ‘Dead Reckoning’ through the pandemic storm

A new flu-like virus distant, abstract and then suddenly… ‘This is real, this is bad’

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

How the old ‘all politics is local’ became today’s ‘all local politics are global’

Gentrification is not a byproduct of planned urban growth, it is the plan

Austin’s challenge: a common language of environmental sustainability

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

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

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

Gentrification is not a byproduct of planned urban growth, it is the plan

Dogs to roads to human rights — Austin’s direct democracy decades