LA PORTE, Texas — A massive pipeline fire sent a pillar of flame towering over some Houston suburbs on Monday as first responders evacuated a surrounding neighborhood and tried to keep more nearby homes from catching on fire. The blaze involving a 20-inch pipeline carrying n...
New plans for Market Mile north of Houston, Texas, include revamping the existing flea market with food trucks, street furniture, and increased pedestrian access. Image Courtesy of SWA These changes in the suburban landscape can only be fruitful for architects and urbanists if they allow themsel...
In 2018, as Democrats across the country were flipping districts in what could be characterized as traditional suburbs -- middle to upper-middle class, majority white enclaves -- a slightly different story played out in Texas' 22nd district, south of Houston. The district, encompassin...
Democrats are right to fear the suburban edge. Even though there has been explosive growth in urban areas over the last decade, it is mostly concentrated in what are mostly cities in name only –Ft. Worth, Phoenix, Charlotte, Houston– rather than classically dense urban areas such as...
During the fall of 2014, for the first time, more than half of the students across U.S. public schools were Latin@ and African American. In the largest urban public school districts (New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston), Latin@s are more than half of the total student ...
Developer Crawford Hoying brought back “offices above the store” at its walkable Bridge Park development, a new urban center organized around a Main Street in Dublin, Ohio, outside of Columbus. (Image courtesy of Crawford Hoying) Remixing suburbs for a new era of success Demographic ...
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sellers of cosmetics and hair care products, and began developing its own line of cosmetics. The school would later expand to five locations around the city and eleven more in other states. The company eventually moved to Houston, but their fading green-and-yellow painted sign still remains on...
The report refers to this as the coming of the “18-hour city,”,and uses the term to refer to cities like Houston, Austin, Charlotte, and Nashville, which are “positioning themselves as highly competitive, in terms of livability, employment offerings, and recreational and cultural facilities...