Travel & Outdoors
August 1, 1990
The Battle for Barton Springs
A determined developer’s big plans for Austin’s cool, clear water hole is bringing out extremes on both sides.
Real Estate
News & Politics
August 1, 1984
The Eccentric Genius of Trammell Crow
He changed the face of Texas by building warehouses that looked like office buildings. Then he built office buildings that looked like warehouses.
Style & Design
May 31, 1984
Move Over, Southfork
Up for sale in Dallas, the Shanbaum house boasts a whopping 28,000 square feet and what may be Texas’ most comprehensive collection of sixties and seventies kitsch—along with a $2.75 million price tag.
Business
March 1, 1984
“I Beat Ben Barnes and John Connally in a Fair Fight”
When Bames-Connally Investments announced plans to build apartments in a South Austin neighborhood, the residents banded together to try to stop them. They won the battle but lost the war.
News & Politics
November 1, 1983
Fantasy Island
It’s a high-rise developer’s dream. Houston’s old guard wants to turn 34 acres of downtown warehouses into an island of classy shops and pricey condos. They thought they had it wired, until Kathy Whitmire was elected mayor.
News & Politics
April 1, 1982
Life With the Sutherlands, Frontier Family
Outside the back door stretches the lonely prairie; there is deep silence broken sometimes by gunshots and things that go bump in the night. But here on the edge of Dallas’s suburbs, you can always retreat to the whirlpool in the bathroom.
Business
October 1, 1981
Losing Big
Everybody knows the story about the young Texan who goes into business, works hard, and makes millions. But what happens when his luck runs out?
News & Politics
March 1, 1981
Home Sweet Home, Good-bye
And hello to high prices, high interest rates, high rents, and a new low for the American dream.
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1979
The New Apartment Slums
Behind the gleaming facades of many new apartment villages are the crumbling walls of next year’s urban blight.
Being Texan
July 1, 1978
Brave New Vacancies
Give us your tired and freezing Yankees, your studious Arabs, your ambitious young hustlers just blown into town, and we will rent them one bedroom and a bath for $215.
Design
June 30, 1977
Hello, Walls
When is a wall not a wall? When it's a work of art.