For those of you who don’t read both West & Clear and my other little baby, Fort Worthology, here’s a summary of what you missed whilst cruelly stomping on my heart with your steel-toed Ignore Boots. C’mon, baby - Fort Worthology loves you like a kitten, too.

• A link to an old ’70s plan to extend the Leonard’s/Tandy Center subway
• A note that the Museum Place development marches onwards with the closing and imminent demolition of J & J’s Hideaway
• A post about Agricultural Urbanism - techniques for integrating food-growing into a dense, walkable environment
• A video from the CNU showing how walkable neighborhoods help reduce energy use and pollution
• Another one of my laments (collect the whole set) about the closed and decaying Heritage Park downtown
• Some updated site plans for the West 7th development
• A note about the Downtown Design Review Board’s half-approval of new lighting for the Texas & Pacific train station/lofts
• A request for information on vacant lots for sale in Fairmount

It’s been another busy week at West & Clear’s sister site Fort Worthology, so here’s some of what’s been going on since last Thursday:

• SoSeven’s rolling along on the Shops & Lofts.
• I took my usual architecture nerd’s perspective in examining a new-construction home of traditional architecture in Fairmount.
• Rumors are afoot - Is the United Way Building coming down? And what might replace it?
• I took another perspective on the Susan Alanis hiring.
• I rolled out a bunch of HDR photos of downtown.
• Finally, I wrote up a huge post today going into detail on the neighborhoods of the Trinity Uptown plan.