Urban Edge

Insights, perspectives and stories about building better cities and better lives

Perspective: Welcoming to Houston for new resident includes getting hit by a car

A changing Houston must reimagine streets for pedestrians and cyclists and have less concern for speeding traffic.

Texas Senate approves school finance reform bill but opts not to fund it with a sales tax hike

Via The Texas Tribune: The chambers will need to negotiate how to give teachers pay raises, whether to adjust how students take standardized tests and how to provide long-term property tax relief for Texans.

What a complete street really looks like

Many plans are intended to support multimodal mobility but a truly complete street goes beyond that.

HERC report aims to help Texas achieve its 60x30 goal

After following Texas eighth-graders for twelve years after their high school graduation, the Houston Education Research Consortium found that 29 percent of Texas graduates get post-secondary degrees.

Survey aims to help small manufacturers, artists succeed in Houston

Houston's economy is known for oil, gas and energy, but the local economy is built on much more, including small manufacturers.

Housing costs have lowered for the rich but risen for the poor, analysis shows

This research shows how much the gap between the rich and the poor has exacerbated.

Houston's biggest public transportation myths, misconceptions and facts

Transportation guru Christof Spieler defines some of Houston's largest transportation myths and facts.

Kinder Institute seeks to make Houston one of the most-studied cities in America through Urban Data Platform

Session at the Urban Affairs Association conference highlights Kinder Institute’s efforts to encourage scholars to study Houston’s pressing issues.

In Houston and beyond, innovative affordable housing design

Not known for interesting design, several recent examples try to move affordable housing forward.

Deadline to comment on region's $132 billion transportation plan closes in two weeks

By 2045, the Greater Houston and Galveston area will be home to nearly 11 million people, according to the Houston-Galveston Area Council.