There seems to still be a hang-up about opening grocery stores and pharmacies next to the higher end retail and restaurants in Oak Cliff’s Bishop Arts District. Without these kinds of stores, there’s an implicit barrier created between those who can afford to frequent the District and those who can’t.

Out west in San Angelo, an unassuming building doesn’t define culture to the community, it brings it to them.

A city for pedestrians, which is what all the great cities were, is now remote from our thinking. Indeed, many of our “traffic experts” view the pedestrian as the major problem in urban traffic flow.

The American neighborhood died after World War II, writes author and urban sociologist Ray Oldenburg. And with it went our “Third Places.”

When it comes to the stagnant growth of Dallas’ downtown, the city sweats, residents gripe, and investors point to the lack of foot traffic. But Joan Arbery sees twenty realizable investments that could draw people downtown. (Listed in no particular order.)

As the ground breaks on the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park, Millennium Park vet offers critical words of advice.

Some say high speed rail may not make economic sense in Texas. So what? Build it anyway – because something bigger is going on.

The Oak Cliff Transit Authority has teamed with Fort Worth to pursue federal grants to build a new streetcar line. We sat down with OCTA board member Jason Roberts to find out what this means for the future of Dallas transportation.

A courthouse town in the Texas panhandle strives to remake itself as a vacation center – a destination for urbanites on weekend flight. But will it work?

Free from the burden of history and free from expectations, Dallas architecture should take its cue from China: build big, large, and flashy.