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The future of transit: How housing design, zoning, taxes and technology will shape the future of mobility in Austin and other cities

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Synthesized and condensed below are brief clips from the video recording of the panelists’...
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Urbānitūs Roundtable Series – Episode #2 – The Future of Transit in Austin – October 12th, 2020

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The key to upward mobility socially and economically is horizontal mobility to work, education...
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Urbānitūs Roundtable Series – Episode #1: COVID-19 and the education crisis

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Far more than simply posing the question, 'to open or not to open,' COVID-19...
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How Texas progressives’ blue dreams for their red state again became a hunt for the white whale of U.S. politics

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Once again, in the aftermath of the 2020 election, dreams of a Blue Texas remain just that – dreams. And thus, a Blue Texas...
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Republicans like Sen. Ted Cruz once stood up to Donald Trump — they need to do so again for our democracy

Justice Matters Nathan Ryan -
The 2016 Republican Party Iowa Caucus results gave us a preview of how Donald Trump responds to an election loss. In the afterglow of what...
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‘Caste,’ an election and the resonance of racism below the surface of liberal, progressive America

Justice Matters David Judson -
Review: Caste– The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson, 2020, 475 pp., Random House As the razor-edged finale to a presidential election riven by ambiguity reaches...
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When That Day Comes

Runes & Rhymes Brenda Freed, Jonathan Lee & Michael D’Eath -
We’re waiting for the day when we can say, it’s over, foreverWe’re tired of all the lies, and all the guys who’ve gone to...
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How Texas rebuffed billions in ACA aid to insure the poor, and how Austin and other cities could fix it

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The Affordable Care Act, or ACA, the signature policy of President Barack Obama’s administration, was the culmination of nearly a century of contentious policy...
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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 and centralized treatment...
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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 the urban...
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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, 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

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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 brewing for...
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