Austin Is Getting Bigger. So Are Its Fences.
New homeowners are skirting city codes to close themselves off from their neighbors with sky-high, opaque barricades.
New homeowners are skirting city codes to close themselves off from their neighbors with sky-high, opaque barricades.
It’s intended to reconnect a corner of Dallas divided long ago by a highway, but without the right policies enacted, some fear it will displace residents who've lived there for decades.
Tacos y Chelas may be surrounded by pricey restaurants, but the humble space has tacos al pastor and birria tacos that won’t break the bank.
In a city famous for its transplants, Austin’s Major League Soccer team has created a space where longtime residents can feel at home.
Car clubs have gathered for decades at “Chicano Park” in the East Cesar Chavez neighborhood. But residents of a new luxury apartment building have started calling the police to stop them.
Before she revamped one of Austin’s seediest motels, kicking off the neighborhood’s transformation, Lambert spent three years running the place—and filming her interactions with customers.
The musicians in Midland, a popular country band, have entered the conversation about gentrification in the worst possible way.
A new report finds that, when transportation costs are factored in, Texas’s biggest metros aren’t the bargain they often claim to be.
An excerpt from Texas expat Benjamin Markovits’s ‘Christmas in Austin’ casts a sharp eye on his hometown.
Call it a comeback—for now.
Leaders of the Alamo City took it out of the running for the online retail giant’s HQ2.
The case against Amazon.
A requiem for Houston’s coolest neighborhood.
Murals at the intersection of Twelfth and Chicon on Austin’s East Side were painted over recently, while famous images in the city’s tourist neighborhoods have become institutions.
Robert Pruitt’s art vividly portrays the lives and dreams of the people who have long called Houston’s rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods home.
White hipsters: The least self-aware people on the planet?
The PR fallout behind the Jumpolin fiasco continues to grow.
When the owners of Jumpolin in East Austin went to bed on Wednesday night, they were the proprietors of a piñata shop. When they woke up on Thursday, they had a pile of rubble. But exactly what happened is still a matter of debate.
The San Antonio Express-News used Census data to track the physical movement of wealth in a variety of Texas cities. What do those maps teach us?
The Fordham Institute singles out zip codes in Austin, Houston, and Dallas, but his criteria is limited and imprecise.
The residents of San Antonio’s King William Historic District saved their neighborhood from bums, bulldozers, and bogus bay windows. Now, if they can only save it from themselves.
A look at Houston’s Meyerland, Dallas’ Munger Place, El Paso’s Sunset Heights, and Austin’s Hyde Park shows that few fights get the blood boiling like a good fight with a neighbor.
Austin is trading old houses for new offices. The City Council calls it progress.