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Weird City: Sense of Place and Creative Resistance in Austin, Texas is a non-fiction scholarly text by Joshua Long published in 2010 by University of Texas Press.The book uses the "Keep Austin Weird" movement as a central focus to discuss the social, cultural and economic changes occurring in Austin, Texas, at the beginning of the 21st century. [1]
The Office of Sustainability (formerly Chula Vista CLEAN) is a sustainability organization based in Chula Vista, California. It was established in 2007 in order to help find new and adaptive solutions to environmental problems impacting the city and its surrounding region.
Austin formerly operated its City Hall at 124 West 8th Street. [3] In the 1980s, the City of Austin proposed a 60-acre urban renewal project for Austin's Warehouse District, [4] which would have included a new city hall complex designed by urban planner Denise Scott Brown, along with a new location for the Laguna Gloria art museum, designed by architect Robert Venturi. [5]
Editor's note: City Hall Insider is a roundup of items the Austin City Council is set to vote on other local government news and an inside look at my reporting process. This story will be updated ...
The city has been trying since 2014 to shut down its portion of the plant, which Watson said is the city's "single biggest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions," accounting for 75% of Austin ...
In this case, the lawsuit claims, the 2024 tax rate for Project Connect approved by the Austin City Council on Aug. 14 is miscalculated "because the 'purpose' of the 2020 Project Connect tax ...
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Austin–Bergstrom International Airport was completed during his tenure on the council. When deregulation proponents proposed the city sell its public electric utility, García was key in keeping what is now Austin Energy in the public's hands. García supported the successful acquisition of significant acreage for nature preserves and parks.