How Should Austin Grow in the 2020s?

Downtown Austin’s skyline decked out for the holidays late last month. Image: gsloan / Flickr Creative Commons

Happy New Year, Austin! Instead of going to the gym with everyone else or resolving to be nicer on Twitter, we’re taking the dawn of the roaring 2020s as an opportunity to reflect on both how far the city’s growth has come in the decade since 2010, and the direction we’d like to travel in the year (and decade) to come. Won’t you join us?

There are a few obvious white whales we’d like to land around here — let’s start with massively improved public transportation throughout the urban core and beyond; a comprehensive update of the city’s land development code, a lot more housing for Austinites struggling with homelessness and affordability; the arrival of the first supertall skyscraper downtown, a gold building, and much, much more.

Still, we think it might be nice to hear from the rest of you, so please do us a favor and share your thoughts on the future of the city’s ongoing growth, especially as they relate to the opportunities and challenges facing our urban design downtown. What are some things we did right in the last decade, and what do we still need to fix?

We hope you’ll stick with us for another year of everything Austin — and if you haven’t already, now would be a great time to sign up for our once-a-week email newsletter!

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