Travel & Outdoors
July 21, 2023
The Battle for Zilker Park
Austin's signature green space is at the center of a long-running debate over how much the city should cling to its past as it prepares for the future.
City Planning
Style & Design
September 12, 2022
A Skate Park, Health Center, and Library Will Open Under One Innovative Roof in Houston
With a goal of fostering intergenerational connection, the Alief Neighborhood Center is a new model for what a community center can be.
Travel & Outdoors
March 3, 2021
Inside the Ambitious Plan to Redesign Houston’s Biggest Park
A ten-year, $205 million renovation is transforming Houston’s Memorial Park from a dense and dying thicket into a lush oasis. But is this restoring nature or replacing it?
The Daily Post
June 10, 2015
What Should Austin and El Paso Do With the Streets Named “Bruce Jenner Lane”?
Neighborhoods in both Austin and El Paso have subdivisions with streets named after famous Olympians—including the 1976 Decathlon gold medalist who earned that medal when she went by the name “Bruce Jenner.” What do you do with those streets now that she’s living as Caitlyn?
The Daily Post
April 22, 2015
Are the One-Way Streets in Our City Centers Killing Neighborhoods, Causing Crime, and Depressing Property Values?
And could converting streets to two-way revitalize blighted sections of Texan inner cities, especially Houston’s still-moribund downtown?
Style & Design
January 21, 2013
A Q&A With Michael Ennis
The writer-at-large on the development of West Dallas, Big D’s need for an urban middle class, and what a standout twenty-first-century city looks like.
Style & Design
January 21, 2013
Arch of Triumph
Dallas’s almost-finished Calatrava bridge may be an emblem of the city’s status. But the smart urban plan for the small neighborhood it leads to says more about the city’s future.
News & Politics
September 1, 1978
O Freeway, My Freeway
Help! I’m a prisoner on the freeway and can’t get off.
Health
July 31, 1975
The Hottest Place in the Whole U.S.A.
How the Texas heat can sap your energy, dull your intelligence, send you to an early grave, and make you sweat.