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This summer, Houston Tomorrow has hired two interns. As a part of their experience here, we would like them to try out various modes of public transportation in order to gain an understanding of how the system currently works, as well as to inspire a level of comfort with public…

This November, an election will be held for the position of the Mayor of Houston. What Could Houston’s next mayor do by the year 2022? What it is Houston Tomorrow will host a series of three luncheons, each with a panel of keynote speakers who will present on topics that…

Chris Leinberger wrote the book The Option of Urbanism and has led the research on the value premium of walkable real estate.  Here he is speaking about the need for walkable development last month in Dallas: Part 1 and Part 2

CityLab has a new piece outlining the on-going debate in Houston not to tear down a highway, but what to do with the carcass left behind after they go forward shifting traffic around the city rather than entirely through the city in every which direction.  In that sense, they’ve leapfrogged our efforts locally in Dallas. […]

Earlier this year, I shared a photo with my friends at Strong Towns showing how drastically my hometown of Port Arthur, Texas had changed over the past hundred years. The scene above isn’t all that newsworthy given the same process is taking place across US cities that reached their apex during the 20th Century. What is newsworthy, though, […]