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Capitol Complex Master Plan’s First Phase Brings State-Sponsored Urbanism to Downtown Austin’s Dead Zone

Caleb Pritchard January 20, 2018 Comment

I’ll start by staking out a risky position for a blog like this: Downtown Austin is a pretty good place. Compared to, say, the moribund central business districts of Dallas or Houston, Austin’s original 179 blocks are, for the most part, a thriving patch of round-the-clock city life.

Well, for the most part. But once you get above 11th Street, things start to fall apart, and by the time you arrive at the state office buildings north of the Capitol and 15th Street, the house of cards has collapsed entirely. The space teems with thousands of . . .

 

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Filed Under: News Tagged With: 78701, architecture, capitol complex, city politics, design, development, downtown, parks, placemaking, urbanism, walkability

About Caleb Pritchard

Caleb Pritchard is a Downtown Austin-based freelance writer and reporter with a wild fixation on urban transportation. Like, don't get him started.

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