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Renovating Austin: New Homes In Old Neighborhoods
(Image credit: Jay Voss)There’s an odd thing happening in Austin’s older neighborhoods: people are moving in, tearing down whatever 1930s homes they find on their lots, and in these spaces constructing...
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Graffiti as Advertisement
Photo credit: Jann Alexander (cropped by author)It’s nice to think about graffiti as a free, democratic art form. Anyone can participate—all you risk is a fine or possibly jail time! But in Austin,...
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Graffiti that Annotates
My favorite genre of graffiti is work that comments on its immediate surroundings. In east Austin, this type of graffiti tends to refer to the seemingly unending gentrification of neighborhoods further...
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Can We Measure the Expansion of a City by Its Landscaping?
(Image Credit: KXAN Austin)It’s great to be back on viz. after a semester away. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Perhaps the most noticeable thing in Austin upon my return is the...
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Casino's Law: Defending American Liberties in Personal Injury Attorney...
Image Credit: Screenshot from VimeoThe Super Bowl, with an audience of 111.5 million people, tends to be a place where the definition of “American” is equally invoked and contested. Not only do the...
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Small-Government Urban Planning Sometimes Negates Itself
(Image Credit: dfwfoodtrucks.com)There’s no doubting that Austin’s a great example of urban sprawl. Anyone who’s driven up Burnet Road on a shopping expedition, or down South Lamar looking for a...
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Developing Austin for the Future
(Image Credit: austinchronicle.com)This is most likely my last post of the semester, and I thought I spend it writing about development trends in Austin. Anyone who has lived here for more than a few...
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The Impermanent Art of Graffiti
Graffiti by Banksy, Image via Holy TacoAs many of Banksy's works show, graffiti can convey social commentary. For example, the painting above, which shows a city worker sandblasting the famous Lascaux...
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Texas Wildfires and Nonlinear Disaster Narratives
Image Credit: Jay Janner AMERICAN-STATESMANSince this past Sunday the local wildfires have been a dominant force in the Texas media. Over 1,000 homes and 35,000 acres were destroyed in the Bastrop area...
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Protesting What?
(Image Credit: Jay Voss)“Here we go again, same old rat again…” Students and staff at UT Austin have undoubtedly noticed the protesters outside of the University Co-Op this semester. Every weekday, 15...
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Keeping It Weird: Leslie as Austin’s Icon
Image Credit: Austin Culture MapH/T: Noel RadleyAustin’s Thirteenth Annual East Pet Parade, held just last Saturday, not only celebrated “family, friends, and of course our furry friends,” but also...
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