Have you heard the good news about the North Burnet / Gateway Regulating Plan? This is the part of the monologue where people typically slam the door in our faces, but since you’re on the internet you can’t get away! Marching into the tedious swamps of land use terminology is a surefire eye-glazer, but all you really need to know is…
urban design
Austin Can’t Build Its Way Out of Traffic
If you live in Austin, chances are you drive a car to get most places you need to go. And chances are at least some of the time, you sit in traffic and get pretty frustrated about that. And chances are, you don’t necessarily want more of our city’s precious natural beauty to be paved…
These Are the Downtown Streets Austinites Want to Transform
The intersection of Fourth and Lavaca Streets in downtown. Photo by James Rambin. We recently asked our readers to tell us which downtown Austin streets, if they were given the keys to the city through some supernatural force, they might like to close to traffic and convert into shared pedestrian plaza spaces — think of something like…