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I had the good fortune of being invited to a meeting with Chris Leinberger who was stopping through town on his way to Mexico City.  Leinberger keynoted CNU23 here in Dallas where he showed off his recent Walk-Up Wake Up Call study of the Boston metro area.  The study examines all of the walkable places […]

Last night, Monte Anderson and I gave the 2nd in a series of classes at the Dallas Institute.  I’ll be posting the slide show of my presentation shortly, but first I wanted to share the video that Monte made in collaboration with others about ten years ago.  He showed it last night.  It was the […]

The major theme of the 2014 Austin elections was affordability and a major theme of City Council since then has been defining the word. Long-time readers of this blog are no stranger to tussles over the definition. Michael King took on the subject in the Austin Chronicle, taking aim at the Statesman’s editorial board and their false equation of affordability with “low property taxes”. […]

Plano has won a national award for best neighborhood.  No, not the entire 70+ square miles of the entire municipality, as apparently sometimes gets confused for a neighborhood.  Neighborhoods should be about a square mile, be a great place to live, and provide convenient access to all of your daily needs within a feasible walk […]

A Plan Houston public hearing will be held before the final step is taken by City Council to adopt Houston’s first general plan. According to the City of Houston Planning Department: Houston is at the final step in the adoption of its first general plan known as Plan Houston. Plan…

In my last blog post on ways Dallas can improve, I touched upon what is now called civic innovation. What is civic innovation you may ask? Civic innovation is an emerging movement where local governments open up their data sets to tech companies, web developers and data scientist to create programs, apps and tools to […]