Learn about historic properties in Austin: There is a new web tool that will help people learn more about historic properties in Austin. Michael Holleran, with the UT Austin School of Architecture, sat down with us on Tuesday to talk about the web tool.
June 5, 2012 – Assoc.of Critical Heritage Conference
Austin to unveil wiki for city historical sites
I hosted a walk and talk through East Austin today in partnership with Jenni Minner President of Mid-Tex Mod and Project Manager of the Austin Historical Survey Wiki. It was also one of hundreds of commemorative Jane Jacobs walks recognizing her contribution to planning, preservation, and all things urban street life held around the country. The…
Mid Tex Mod: East Austin History Walk and Talk (April 15)
Texas had their own Zora Neale Hurston, but who knows his name, remembers where he lived? During my work on the Austin Historical Survey Wiki Project, I came across this home in East Austin. You’d pass it or see it and think it was simply an eyesore, a casualty of urban neglect. There’s no roof…
“Robert L. Smith… was the guy that was taking Booker T. Washington’s ideas and applying them to Texas,” The Farmers Improvement Society boarding school is the student body photographed outside the school building.
Mayfield Park residents speak up about Imperial development worries – Your Houston News: News: Residents of the Mayfield Park subdivision, one of the oldest and most famous neighborhoods in Sugar Land, feel ignored. It was once home to MR Wood, the segregated school made available to Imperial Sugar Workers. A great pictorial overview of Mayfield…
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy This is a “Before I die…” board. Another ingenious project from Ted Fellow Candy Chang. It is a wonderful, sublime, yet sobering attempt to jolt people from the mundanity of their everyday lives and alienation from place to address a core question, what mark…
