So, in East Austin, in Houston’s Freedmen’s Town and Third Ward and Montrose, in Dallas’ Bishop Arts and Oak Cliff, among other gentrifying and -fied neighborhoods, the architectural language (what architects call “vernacular”) has become inseparable from the vocabulary of policy, where other complicated words, like “displacement,” “segregation,” “inequity,” and “NIMBYism,” are warring furiously. — Texas Observer
Allyn West penned a photo-essay looking at 'The Architecture of Gentrification' across Texas.
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The white one with the butterfly roof at front is cute, although it's done in the 2017 super-trend of white board and batten with black windows that is prevalent *everywhere* apparently!
This is a good article and photo essay. Thanks for posting.
As a quick photo survey, it's interesting-- especially in a city famous for its lack of conventional planning.
But the writing is no better than the buildings being criticized. For example, the header text up top here is a single sentence. And for a piece hoping to shed light on important issues, it's just lazy in its use of many terms with little or no definition.
If Houston needs zoning, the Texan Observer could use some editing.
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