Urbanism

Unfair Park doubled down on coverage of the looming influence of North Texas' most powerful bureaucrat, NCTCOG transportation director Michael Morris, who, as Jim Schutze puts it in his piece, can wave "a magic wand that makes land values in one place soar and values in another crater." Who is Morris ...

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Art is so cool these days. Everyone’s got to have it. Even whole streets, block after block, apparently need a requisite amount of it in order to fit in, or so it would seem on the newly revived east Henderson Avenue. An urban beautification effort called the Henderson Art Project has plopped a number of public sculptures on the avenue as selected by a jury. Like a mid-life crisis Corvette, the art in the Henderson Art Project is a surrogate for real sophistication: it had better be shiny, accessibly emotive, and apparently red.