Compact, Climate-Friendly, Competitive

To restart the economy while saving the planet, the Congress for the New Urbanism advocates traditional neighborhoods for all

"...discussions in Denver will affect Austin, shaping the region's neighborhoods, Downtown plans, rail lines, and road projects. Here's a..."

June 26, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Artists as Developers

A symposium gives creative types a new role in rebuilding neighborhoods

"...signs. With population density returning to city centers, low-income neighborhoods with local histories and identities are vanishing under the..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Mixed Use Meeting Tonight

"...Ordinance, and its centerpiece, the Vertical Mixed Use provision. Neighborhoods can decide to opt-in or opt-out of the zoning..."

Dec. 13, 2006 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Seeing the (Green) Light

Environment, Neighborhoods Set the Tone for Place 2 Race

"...made him a familiar face in the East Austin neighborhoods, where he lives and works. With a master's in..."

April 14, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Overlooked, Overheard Lets Us Hear the Sound of the City's Money Being Spent

Composer and audio artist Douglas Laustsen geo-tagged sites in the Govalle and Highland neighborhoods where local government's been at work

"...in the name of municipal upkeep, in two far-flung neighborhoods along Airport Boulevard: Highland and Govalle. Thanks to the..."

June 11, 2021 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin's Water Prospectors

New city rules have slowed the demand, but urban wells remain a hot commodity in wealthy neighborhoods

"...it's also become a trendy amenity in the well-to-do neighborhoods of West Austin. Facing an unrelenting drought, outdoor watering..."

Nov. 15, 2013 News Feature by Amy Smith

East Austin Studio De-Tour

Homesteading artists face city code challenges – and raise old fears – in changing neighborhoods

"...the event about two years ago. "We heard about neighborhoods that were a little upset about the tour and..."

July 15, 2011 News Feature by Mike Kanin

RG4N Questions City's Legal Wisdom

Anti-Wal-Mart group wants to know why city hired outside legal staff in Northcross case.

"...ranks behind the developer rather than join with the neighborhoods in opposition." Mountain? Molehill? We're torn – you make..."

Feb. 21, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Point Austin: Up or Out?

Debates over open space and neighborhoods are the discourse of community

"...population density in the central city without overwhelming traditional neighborhoods with mammoth, poorly designed eyesores intended to cram the..."

June 16, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Austin at Large: Battle Lines Being (Re)drawn

The imperfect ways we try to describe what’s at stake when neighborhoods change

"...default to calling the two sides here "developers" and "neighborhoods," but we don't. That framing is intended by its..."

Sept. 23, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Illegal Tender

A throwback to the Eighties crime dramas and Seventies blacksploitation films, this Latino action thriller about family ties and blood feuds rarely transcends clichés.

"...money, especially in the crucible of the crime-ridden Latino neighborhoods in the Bronx. However, like that period that resides..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wassup Rockers

Larry Clark, the director of Kids, is back 10 years later with this look at a group of teenage male Latinos in Los Angeles who have more than the usual difficulties finding somewhere to fit in.

July 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fall to Grace

Shot in Austin with a mostly local cast and buoyed by a fine, evocative score, Fall to Grace is a quiet little ensemble film that pulses with its own unique heartbeat.

"...film is about the bonds that exist in small neighborhoods, where territoriality isn't neccessarily a bad word (think Spike..."

June 16, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Grudge

New American version of haunted-house film follows the same tack as its Japanese predecessor, but is strangely neutered by its infusion of blond American actresses.

"...put in Japan and utilizes the same house and neighborhoods as its predecessor? An American cast led by former..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

An American Rhapsody

"...eye for the banal intricacies of 1950s pre-planned suburban neighborhoods, à la Levittown: folding-box phonographs, pickup-sticks, bundt cakes, welcome..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Good Will Hunting

"...a “Southie” -- a twentysomething kid from the rough-and-tumble neighborhoods of South Boston. By day he works construction with..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Original Gangstas

"...patient and stick with it. The finale sees whole neighborhoods go up in flames as our heroes, backed up..."

Aug. 23, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Angie

"...Coolidge directed Lost in Yonkers. Now she's merely moved neighborhoods and made Lost in Bensonhurst. It's as if some..."

March 4, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Backdraft

"...this movie. The film exploits Chicago's terrain of ethnic neighborhoods, political turf, and glorious modern architecture, but it has..."

May 24, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

ATX Free Fridge Project Pops Up Outside Nixta Taqueria

Free community groceries for food insecure neighborhoods

"...stewarded by ATX Free Fridge, to provide food insecure neighborhoods fresh produce and more for free...."

July 27, 2020 Food Post by Lina Fisher

Three for District 2

Dove Springs media forum addresses southeast voters

"...of direct representation at City Hall, the southeast Austin neighborhoods that will soon vote to elect a City Council..."

Sept. 11, 2014 News Post by Chase Hoffberger

City Hall Hustle: Make Yourself at Home

Neighborhoods split over burgeoning vacation rentals

"...have grown in popularity, questions surrounding their compatibility with neighborhoods – driven by some horror stories from next door..."

Feb. 4, 2011 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Austin's Promise Deferred

Neighborhoods miss out on initial Fed grants

"...local groups that applied for the new Federal Promise Neighborhoods Planning Grants (the Austin Achievement Zone in St. John/Coronado..."

Sept. 22, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

A Bloodcurdling Day in the Neighborhood: ANC Council Candidates Forum

Tense ANC candidates forum on Wedensday.

"...facing a gantlet of upcoming forums, Wednesday night's Austin Neighborhoods Council City Council candidate forum may already be old..."

March 28, 2008 News Post by Wells Dunbar

The Taco Kings, Besieged

A conflict with neighborhoods has made the previously independent street taco vendors organize in self-defense

"...have high standards. Some them have gone into residential neighborhoods to set up, and that causes problems for everyone...."

Aug. 11, 2006 News Feature by Michael May

Use Only as Directed

Patenting the Formula

"...process, and without a lot of buy-in from the neighborhoods themselves. By earlier this year, after flaps and fumbles..."

Aug. 20, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

New Kid on the Block

Neighborhood Services office aims to help neighborhoods help themselves

"...Austin needs to coordinate better how it responds to neighborhoods," says Cora Wright. That would be her job, or..."

Jan. 14, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Urban on the Rocks

It's the Sprawl, Y'all

"...look like a way to dump growth into established neighborhoods that don't want it, or can't handle it, or..."

April 30, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Neighborhood Soup

"..."neighborhood-based planning" means today, and each of the 13 neighborhoods currently competing for the pilot program -- even if..."

Aug. 1, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Tovo and Casar Unfiltered on CodeNEXT

The Council members' full conversation with the Chronicle

"...– redevelopment rate, for example, in “T4” [Transect 4] neighborhoods, like the ones that have been mapped in Bouldin..."

Sept. 14, 2017 News Post by Nick Barbaro

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