A few months back, downtown Austin's changing skyline went viral. A photographic comparison from roughly the same vantage point demonstrating the building boom over the past decade bounced around Twitter and Facebook and Reddit for several weeks, often accompanied by sneers and jeers from cats who pined for those sunny slopes of ten years ago.
Never mind the fact that people in 2008 had determined that the city had lost its soul in 1998, and that people in . . .