This architectural study and report for the City of Austin covered analyses of community
features and their role in structuring both the form of the city and urban experience.
Neighborhood design and the expectations about their development and renewal as well
as obsolescence and the conditions of commercial areas were explored.
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The center of town is the place for night life and for businesses that understand the advantage of night opening. Restaurants and lounges would likely be more expensive toward the center, less expensive and informal toward the east. Capitalizing on its location, a beer garden at Waller Creek is appropriately informal and inexpensive.
With re-distribution of street space, the street gains a more uniform and formal facade. The pedestrian gains shade, enclosure and separation from traffic.
The joint between neighborhood center and housing should receive as much attention as any part of center or housing itself. The study proposes more degrees of "inside and outside" and more clear statements of the kinds of community neighbors can have with one another.
