Downtown Austin offered a glimpse at the gleaming towers of corporate glory, while on the far eastern reaches of the city, a site once operated by TxDOT now hosts an emergency shelter that has been creatively redeveloped by a diverse and entrepreneurial team of practitioners.
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Keep Austin weird? Or, “keep Austin’s built environment thoroughly eclectic and its infrastructure slightly dysfunctional”? Lessons from the first YIMBYTown conference in the Lone Star State.
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Nat explores the delicacies of the strip malls of north Austin, Texas, as the city densifies steadily and continues to produce award-winning barbecue.
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Texas made the conscious decision to cut itself off from the rest of the country. In extreme weather conditions, either its consumers, its energy producers, or its government are going to have to pick up the tab.
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Nat has, for better or worse, cancelled his trip to an energy conference in the Lone Star State.
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We revisited our previous analysis trying to correlate red state regressivism with corporate investment, but this time looking at California’s newly-amended ban on state-funded travel to a number of deep red states.
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A new conservative investment fund seeks to invest in “socially conservative” products, identifying a market of interested, “un-woke” investors. The only problem? Well, turns out the most profitable companies are all actually pretty socially liberal.
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The extreme weather event affecting about two thirds of the United States right now suggests the need for small-scale interventions that can be scaled over an entire market.
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One morning last fall, I found myself standing in the basement of my 1895 home, watching a waterfall cascade off
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