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Comment of the Day: Houston’s Master Planners
“. . . I’ve talked a lot about the bad way some developers approach growth in Houston. But neighborhoods are addressing it wrong, too. They’re too reactionary. They sit around doing nothing until a...
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Comment of the Day: The Missing Links
“A great comment and right on the money. Houston also needs to take the reins of community building instead of letting developers drive that bus. Subdivisions/neighborhoods are currently created by...
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What Happens When You Decide To Redo That Downtown Freeway Plan in Your Spare...
Tory Gattis reports in an update to his weekly column that TxDOT is looking over the alternative Downtown freeway plan put forth by Houston-based blog Purple City last week — to see if it can pull any...
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How To Polish Up the Dent in Silver St.
In the small but growing city tradition of redoing street plans in your spare time, urban planner and general Houston improvement brainstormer Jesse Thornsen has recently launched a website to...
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Finding the Right Words To Talk Through Houston’s Relationship with Sidewalks
Taking together a recent rash of of essays complaining about Houston’s walkability, public transit, and sidewalk situation, Joe Cortwright over at City Observatory offers some thoughts on why it might...
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Comment of the Day: How Houston’s Park(ing) Proponents Should Take It to the...
“While I understand, generally, the sentiment behind this initiative, I think in Houston it may be a little misguided. If we want a more walkable environment, with fewer buildings set back behind...
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Sedated Allen Pkwy. Double-Crossed by Crosswalk to New Buffalo Bayou Park...
Courtesy of a stripe-skeptical reader, here’s a partial walkthrough tour of the new parking scheme along Allen Pkwy. west of Downtown — these days looking a lot more like the flyover videos released...
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Comment of the Day: How Houston Got Its Sprawl, and Other Tales of Pseudozoning
“Blame our city’s efforts at ‘planning’ in lieu of zoning. In the early 70’s, due to insufficient wastewater infrastructure, the city enacted a ban on apartment buildings of more than 4 units inside...
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Buffalo Bayou Partnership Now Looking East of Downtown, Making Plans
The landscape architecture firm that rejiggered the grounds of the Menil Collection and has put forward a new plan for Hermann Park will now be turning its attention to Buffalo Bayou east of Downtown,...
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Comment of the Day: Houston Is Usually Better Where It Isn’t Planned To Be
“I’m going to go ahead and disagree on the value of planning. The best parts of the city (19th St, parts of Washington, parts of Midtown) were developed before the city passed Chapter 42, and would be...
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A Roundabout First Look at the Green Loop, the Newest Idea for a Houston Ring...
Is Houston ready for yet another loop road? Here’s the proposed Green Loop, a 5-mile network of parks, trails, and other public spaces that the neighborhood supergroups behind Plan Downtown imagine...
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The North Canal, a New Downtown Island, and Other Secret Plans for Downtown...
More new features are imagined for the center of Houston than just the new Green Loop highlighted in the just-released Plan Downtown proposal. There’s also a mysterious new Downtown island. Where did...
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