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The future will not look like the past of Austin’s ‘Hanging Gardens of Babylon’

urbanitus - January 30, 2020

If the westernmost Colorado River draining seven states is sometimes called “America’s Nile,” its smaller...

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The radical remaking of Austin’s ...

David Judson - January 30, 2020

For a glimpse of the future of water in fast-growing Austin and Central Texas, don’t look...

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Dogs to roads to human rights — Austin’s direct democracy decades

David Judson - November 26, 2019

In early November, Austin voters nixed a proposal to rethink the Austin Convention Center...

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