Designing Community

How Houston’s Suburbs Are Redefining Neighborhood Life

Developers are reinventing the suburbs with trails, gardens, and porches that foster connection and make the sprawl feel like home.

12/19/2025 By Diane Cowen

Urban Revival

Downtown Houston Is in Its Postpandemic Glow-Up Era

The area is bustling with new art initiatives, restaurants, bars, apartments, and more.

06/30/2025 By Uvie Bikomo

The Growth Issue

Welcome to Boomtown

What's not growing or exploding right now in Houston?

06/12/2024 Edited by Emma Balter Illustrations by Sam Island

Balancing Progress

Can the New East River and Houston's Historic Fifth Ward Coexist?

The developer Midway and longtime residents are trying to come up with solutions.

06/12/2024 By Uvie Bikomo

Boomtown

A Guide to Surviving Houston’s Growth

Experts weigh in on what to do if you’re facing a tough situation, from navigating eviction and eminent domain to cleaning up after a flood.

06/11/2024 By Uvie Bikomo

Survival Guide

What to Do When Your Property Is Threatened by Eminent Domain

We talk to attorneys about options for property owners who receive a notice about eminent domain.

06/11/2024 By Uvie Bikomo

Survival Guide

What to Do When Development Comes to Your Houston Neighborhood

Gentrification, community character, and effects on longtime residents all come into play as neighborhoods grow and change—or have growth and change thrust upon them.

06/07/2024 By Uvie Bikomo

Sprawl

The Suburban Utopia Promise of Bridgeland

With master-planned communities, developers have created entire cities out of nothing on the outskirts of Houston.

06/03/2024 By Sofia Gonzalez Photography by Anthony Rathbun

Yes Ma’am, No Ma’am

We Ranked Houston Buildings We Love or Hate

From the quirky Beer Can House to the god-ugly Alley Theatre.

05/20/2024 By Uvie Bikomo

Ready to move?

3 Local Johnson Development Projects Named Top Master-Planned Communities in the U.S.

It’s time to move out to the suburbs.

07/21/2021 By Catherine Wendlandt

Mixed-use Mania!

6 Mixed-Use Developments Transforming Houston

City blocks are changing all over town—here's what you need to know.

04/02/2021 By Gwendolyn Knapp

More Moves

Major Midtown Development The Ion Announces 3 Culinary Tenants

The property anchoring an innovation hub will be the home of Late August.

02/11/2021 By Timothy Malcolm

Miracle on 34th Street

6 Big Projects Are Sprouting Up in Garden Oaks–Oak Forest

The two-mile stretch in the GOOF will never look the same.

03/02/2020 By Laura Furr Mericas

Dept. of Partially Solved Mysteries

The Barbara Jordan Recovery Center Is Now a Historical Landmark

An “adaptive mixed-use renovation project” is coming to the Fifth Ward’s old hospital.

12/20/2016 By Adam Doster

Preservation

Saving Houston's History, One Home at a Time

Of the 15 historic Houston homes in this River Oaks oasis originally spared the wrecking ball, 11 will soon be relocated to make room for a high-rise development.

10/27/2016 By Marene Gustin