The UT Austin Center for Sustainable Development (CSD) is pleased to announce that Associate Professor Allan W. Shearer will be joining Dr. Richard L. Corsi as co-director staring this fall.

The August 2014 Architectural Digest cover story, “Texas Triumph,” highlights Laura and George W. Bush‘s residence in Crawford, Texas, designed by Professor David Heymann and completed in 2001, just after Mr. Bush became president.

Senior Lecturer Fran Gale participated in the 39th Annual California Preservation Conference at Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, California, this past spring.

Drs. Barbara Brown Wilson and Steven A. Moore have been awarded the esteemed 2014 Great Places Award in the place research category for their ongoing work at the Green Alley Demonstration Project in east Austin.

Associate Professor Fernando Lara contributed an Op-Ed, titled “Don’t Wait for Mega-events to Build Public Projects,” in the June 10, 2014, edition of the Houston Chronicle.

Assistant Professor Clay Odom‘s bike-powered farm stand project for the HOPE Farmers Market was highlighted in the May 9, 2014, edition of the Austin Chronicle.

“Drawing Lines,” a community-based art project by Lecturer Sarah Gamble [M.Arch. ’05] and community and regional planning Ph.D. student Lynn Osgood was selected by the City of Austin Economic Development Department to receive one of two grants from ArtPlace America.