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Election 2020: How disease, inequality and Democratic indifference played out in Austin

Robert Brehm -
Synthesized below are brief clips from each participant in our discussion, which was originally...
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Urbānitūs Roundtable Series – Episode #3 – Texas and the 2020 Election – December 11th, 2020

Robert Brehm -
The 2020 election is nearly in the rearview mirror, but many questions about what...
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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

urbanitus -
Synthesized and condensed below are brief clips from the video recording of the panelists’...
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Austin’s ‘Strong Mayor’ proposal misses the fundamental issues in our country’s electoral process

Tales of the Global City Barry Kahn -
Democracy, Winston Churchill once said, “is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried.” Treatises have been...
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‘Strong mayor’ proposition on May ballot would be an obstacle to social justice

Tales of the Global City Nico Ramsey -
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...
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To protect democracy, let us elect our leaders and make city hall accountable

Justice Matters Shuronda Robinson -
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...
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Texas should empower local innovation, not block it, argues a new ‘Metropolitan Blueprint’

Tales of the Global City David Judson -
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...
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What electricity prices can (and cannot) do in the real world of energy markets

Tales of the Global City David B. Spence -
The “what” is pretty clear. The “why” will take a little longer. The “what,” of course is that last month Texas’ electric power grid failed...
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The radical remaking of Austin’s ...

Monograph David Judson -
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’

Uruk David Judson -
“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

Uruk David Judson -
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

Overstory David Judson -
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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