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Building Rome In A Day: A Better Model For Re-Doing The Comprehensive Plan?

Children working collaboratively and feverishly non-stop for an ungodly amount of time. Parents building ‘with’ their children for hours on end, asking for 9/16″ wood cuts from the jig saw. Socialites...

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Tales From Waller Creek: Waller Creek Is For Crumpets, Croquet + Cucumber...

Waller Creek Is For Croquet, Crumpets And Cucumber Sandwiches? Victrolas, Records, Six Inch Fish, Cooling Off With Your Shoes Off, Giddy Wading? Exploring With Friends, Heading Up Stream To Try The Red...

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Writing: What If Austin Used Mimes To Encourage Better Street User Behavior?

If you missed last week’s post, the first installment of this two part series, click (here) How about a brief quiz to start things off, shall we? 1. Which would cause drivers to be more careful and...

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Writing: What if we transformed our street-use culture by Making Austin Weirder?

What if you and your neighbors decided one day to turn your street into grassed- over park, replete with pony rides, an oompah band and vegetable gardens? When presented with such a possibility, most...

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Waller Creek Is For Dominoes And Talking Smack? This coming Sunday morn’?

Dominoes and Talking Smack? What could be better on a Sunday morning? Head on down to the north end of the UT Tennis Courts on Trinity Street (between the creek and the courts, by the bridge) for...

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Waller Creek Is For Making And Eating Domino Shaped Cookies Even If The Event...

I don’t know what you were planning on bringing today but this submission by Kelley makes me think the Waller Creek Is For Lovers Action And Adventure Society might need to get it together and make...

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Things We Like:What Happens If We Remove Our Stop Signs?A CBS Sunday Morning...

Low and behold, if you were watching CBS Sunday Morning today you may have notice that Mo Rocca did a piece on Tom Vanderbilt’s excellent book, Traffic and even spent a good deal of time hanging out in...

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Writing: How far were you allowed to travel on your own at age eight?

Want to see the original article and comments? Click (here) —— How far were you allowed to travel alone when you were a kid? Are you per chance Vicky Thomas, from Sheffield? If by some very unusual...

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Event:Waller Creek Is For Dominoes And Talking Smack Without Rain: This...

Changing a place by talking about someone’s mom and playing games? Dominoes and Talking Smack? What could be better on a Sunday afternoon at a brand spanking new time (4 pm) in a shiny new (as in we...

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Waller Creek Is For Beasts And Diorama Making? Some pictures from last weekend.

Waller Creek Is For Beasts And Diorama Making that challenges people’s perceptions of what happens in Waller Creek, AND gets them to look a bit closer at all of the fantastic things found in the Creek....

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Waller Creek Is For Making A Giant Topographical Cake Of Waller Creek And...

A six foot long Betty Crocker version of Waller Creek? (not the tiny garden pictured here-kid’s stuff). That’s right, six feet long. Have we lost our minds? Probably. An impossible feat? Maybe but...

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Things We Like: UTSOA’s Awesome Foam Sword Friday This Friday, December 4th...

Can a massive foam sword fight in the crosswalk of a busy street change the street-use culture of a community? This Friday University of Texas School of Architecture students are hosting their once a...

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Event: A Near Future City Think Tank To Re- Imagine How People Transform...

Local governments are the largest industry in the world without an r + d function. What happens if you create an informal r + d unit for a city, bringing together a carefully chosen group of people who...

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Writing: What If We Turn Austin Into A Continuous Playground And Outdoor Gym?

Install recumbent bicycle benches at CAP Metro Bus stops? Outdoor stair climbers on Congress Ave.? In-ground trampolines on Guadalupe? Criss-crossing balance beams on 2nd Street? Concrete ping pong...

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Project: Waller Creek Is For Lots Of People Making An Amazing Cake Of Waller...

And Brainstorming And Then Eating The Cake Too. Oh my goodness. Last weekend was one the most amazing design-build adventures I’ve ever been a part of. Mind you, it was cake and we didn’t get to do any...

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