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Shoal Creek Summed Up

Austin Bicycle Commuting Bicycling in Austin I Told You So PS: I am not a crackpot The Shoal Creek Debacle Transportation Urban Design When Neighborhoods Go Bad
Quicktime presentation about Shoal Creek Boulevard, by Michael Bluejay. Will knock your socks off.
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Broken Commuter Rail Promises, Part One And A Half

Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want I Told You So Republicans Hate Public Transportation Texas Republicans Hate Cities Transit in Austin Transportation Urban Design
Circulator route avoids central Austin (where the people who actually might ride transit live).
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I Got Mine, Now You Can’t Have Yours

Austin I Told You So Urban Design When Neighborhoods Go Bad
A couple of the McMansion Task Force's central Austin members already live in oversized or otherwise incompatible houses.
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Broken Commuter Rail Promises, Part One

Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want I Told You So Transit in Austin Transportation Urban Design
Cap Metro got other pro-transit folks to support the Austin-screwing Kruseetrain by winking that they'd get light rail "later". Let's check on that now.
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Austin Rail Politics Thesis

Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want Funding of Transportation I Told You So metablog Politics (Outside Austin) PS: I am not a crackpot Republicans Hate Poor People Republicans Hate Public Transportation Republicans Hate The Environment Texas Republicans Hate Cities Transit in Austin Transportation Urban Design
Austin rail politics paper - 2000 through 2005 emphasis.
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The Drainage Emergency

Austin Urban Design When Neighborhoods Go Bad
M1EK solves the drainage emergency. The crowd goes wild.
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Irresponsible Center-City Neighborhoods And Their Plans

Austin Urban Design When Neighborhoods Go Bad
More irresponsible center-city neighborhood stuff, in honor of McMansion Week
bad neighbors Hyde Park Neighborhood Association neighborhood associations run amuck neighborhood plans
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Houston outlaws density better than Austin does

Austin I Told You So Urban Design When Neighborhoods Go Bad
Despite popular misconceptions, Houston's development regulations are more anti-density than are most cities'.
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The thing people aren’t getting about the library

Austin Empty Buses Republicans Hate Poor People Republicans Hate Public Transportation Transit in Austin Transportation Urban Design Use Cases Walking in Austin (Pedestrian Issues)
Don't move the library away from the big bus corridors just to look pretty.
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“Stick the renters in high-rises”

Austin Economics I Told You So PS: I am not a crackpot Urban Design When Neighborhoods Go Bad
The new strategy of the smarter, somewhat less evil central neighborhoods: stack 'em downtown away from our houses.
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