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2025

2024

2024.04.11- The Dallas Foundation Announces 2024 Pegasus Prize Finalists

2024.25.10 - With a New Gardener-in Residence, Dolphin Heights Hopes To Increase Fresh Produce For The Community

2024.14.07 - Downtown housing is focus of Denison workshop

2024.14.06 - Buying a home in Dallas is getting more difficult. Here's why.

2024.25.04 - CDCB, BC Workshop officially launch DreamBuild in Los Fresnos

2024.18.03 - Why some Texas cities are getting rid of their minimum parking rules

2023

2023.18.11 - Study Shows That Dallas Has a Lot of Housing, But it Also Has a Lot of Poverty

2023.20.04 - Denison welcomes residents to first housing workshop

2022

2022.10.11 - 6 Strategies for Getting Affordable Housing Built

2022.05.10 - National Building Museum Announces Major New Exhibition Exploring How Housing Affordability Innovations Can Become Real World Solutions

2022.11.05 -  Luis Murillo of BC Workshop Talks About the Jackson St. Cottage Project

2021

2021.18.10 - Six Housing Innovations You Need on Your Radar

2021.13.07 - cdcb takes on the management of the Caracara Trails Project Manager role

2021.02.07 - Brownsville’s CDCB Embarks on a New Project to Benefit the Community

2021.29.06 - Brownsville’s historic Samano Building to be restored

2021.12.05 - Coming soon: A Dolphin Heights community gardener in residence

2020

2020.18.12 - The 10 Best and Worst Dallas Buildings 

2020.17.12 - $39 million Fair Park project gets a Los Angeles design star

2020.10.12 - The Garden Cottage: Making Space for Food Security

2020.01.02 - Program lays out roadmap to fight blight in Dallas

2020.29.01 - TREC lays out roadmap to fight blight in Dallas

2020.01.10 - Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge award winners announced

2019

2019 - Dallas Public Library to collect oral histories of west Dallas, south neighborhoods

2019 - Dallas’ Office of Homeless Solutions Moves to Change Perceptions of Affordable Housing

2019.18.09 - Oral History Project Aims To Amplify Voices Of West Dallas Residents

2019.24.02 - Tenth Street Lawsuit: Dallas Has “History of Enforcing Segregation” By Ordinance

2018

2018.20.09 - Fundraising Blazes for Tenth Street Historic District Community Center Today

2018.22.01 - Movers + Shakers: North Texas Social Innovators You Should Know

2018.19.01 - Dallas, a city of books? You can help make that happen at this meeting

2018.10.01 - Dallas Parks to Expand With Smart Growth Planning Tool

2017

2017.26.12 - Good Design Is a Public Good

2017.07.12 - Harvey to be a Turning Point for Equitable Transit-Oriented Development in Houston

2017.10.11 - John Cary Releases New Book, "Design for Good: A New Era of Architecture for Everyone"

2017.10.11 - AIA Dallas Chapter Honors 9 Projects with Built Design Awards

2017.05.10 - Calling from the Downtown Dallas Wonderphone

2017.19.10 - Where Does Culture Exist and How Could It Grown in Dallas

2017.27.09 - Deep in the Heart of South Texas: Client-Centered Design, Empowerment & Innovation

2017.02.08 - The Beginnings of a New Cultural Plan in Dallas

2017.17.07 - A non-profit community design center run by architects

2017.03 - The Road to Disinvestment: How Highways Divided the City and Destroyed Neighborhoods

2017.20.01 - Houston, Texas: Disaster Recovery Funding Rebuilds Housing and Revitalizes Neighborhoods

2016

2016.29.12 - Las viviendas de emergencia texanas que prometen revolucionar la respuesta a desastres naturales

2016.16.12 - A New Art and Design Initiative Will Confront the Sun Belt's Urban Sprawl

2016.06.12 - How a Texas Town is Overhauling Disaster Relief

2016.16.10 - Socially responsible design in America presented in Cooper Hewitt exhibition

2016.10.10 - 9 Design Projects Tackling America’s Poverty Crisis, One Community At A Time

2016.16.09 - Public spaces draw attention in downtown

2016.13.09 - Can 'Precovery' Be the Best Solution to Natural Disasters?

2016.09.09 - Little Free Libraries will honor fallen Dallas police officers

2016.09.09 - Bilingual Video Series Taps Into Latino Voter Population / Serie de Videos Bilingües Informa a la Población Votante Latina

2016.25.08 - A Cooper Hewitt Exhibition Showcases Designs to Better America

2016.27.07 - Youth Lead Ivy City Civic Engagement, Call for Crummell Rec Center

2016.14.07 - HUD, AIA Present Design Awards

2016.14.07 - City of Houston, [bc]Workshop, TOP deserve the national recognition for engaging community and consumers to design better homes

2016.09.07 - Know Your Neighborhood

2016.21.06 - In Your Neighborhood, Who Draws the Map?

2016.28.03 - A Digital Library for All Your Community-Building Needs

2016.09.03 - New People’s Design Library Helps Kickstart Neighborhood DIY Projects

2016.15.02 - Art Matters–In Rural Classrooms and Beyond

2016.11.02 - Holding Back the Flood

2016.25.01 - Trading Cards Help Tell bcWORKSHOP Story

2016.25.01 - Studio Visit > bcWORKSHOP

2015

2015.16.07 - In Context: Congo Street Initiative

2015.19.05 - 'Out of Deepwood' powerfully recounts southeast Dallas' neighbors fight against massive illegal dump

2015.17.05 - Low-income housing project aims to prevent flooding

2015.06.05 - City considers allowing food trucks

2015.14.04 - A custom three-bedroom house for $69,000? Welcome to the new model for disaster relief.

2014

2014.10.00 - The Neighborhood as Phoenix

2014.09.19 - Scourge of FEMA Trailers Wins MacArthur 'Genius' Grant

2014.09/10 - 2014 Design Awards, La Hacienda Casitas

2014.09.05 - Tiny houses address homelessness

2014.08.07 - We have good taste, but there's a gap

2014.08.07 - Libros Libres combats inadvertent economic segregation of national little free libraries

2014.07.23 - Little Free Libraries Show the Power of a Box of Books

2014.06.17 - New Cities Summit speakers say an urban world demands livable cities

2014.06.16 - Disaster pilot project seeks better alternative to FEMA trailers

2014.06.13 - RGV pilot program reconstructs houses after disaster

2014.06.13 - Disaster recovery can be RAPIDO

2014.06.04 - Take A Book, Leave A Book: Little Free Libraries Paper North Texas

2014.06.02 - Community Transforms Old Train Tracks in Brownsville, TX, into Hike & Bike Trail

2014.05/06 - After the Rain

2014.05.22 - Meet Anna Hill, or one of the reasons we do 10 drops in a bucket

2014.05.21 - Programa acerca libros a vecindarios de Dallas

2014.05.17 - Community gathers to build 17 Little Free Libraries for West and South Dallas neighborhoods

2014.05.16 - Empty Oak Cliff house to come alive with exhibit’s letters of hope

2014.05.12 - Building a Better World Through Public Interest Design

2014.05.00 - Community Transforms Old Train Tracks in West Brownsville, Texas, into a Public-Access Hike & Bike Trail

2014.04.08 - Trip to BC Workshop in Dallas, TX

2014.03.17 - Little Free Libraries interest meeting planned

2014.03.06 - Check Out The Ark On Noah Street. It'll Be There For 40 Days And 40 Nights

2014.03.04 - What’s Out There Partners

2014.02.28 - Tenth Street Historic District on board for ark festival

2014.02.18 - UT-RGV merger reports complete

2014.01.20 - Dallas Heroes Trading Cards Have Arrived

2014.01.20 - For the local history buff who collects trading cards, the limited-edition debut of "Dallas Heroes"

2014.01.04 - Hunter, Stephanie Hunt to turn downtown Masonic Temple into center aimed at solving Dallas' 'biggest challenges'

2013

2013.11.07 - Rudy Bruner Awards for Providence and Dallas

2013.08.26 - Engaging in Public Interest Design

2013.08.13 - Calls for artists: Oak Cliff’s Tenth Street area revival project

2013.08.09 - Call for Qualifications Activating Vacancy

2013.08.06 - This Public Art Project Hopes to Revitalize Historic Tenth Street District. It Seeks a Few, Good Artists

2013.07.19 - So What Dallas Neighborhood Do I Live In?

2013.07.19 - Taking issue with the real estate map in today’s paper

2013.06.24 - Current and Former Residents of Oak Cliff's Tenth Street Area Look to the Past and Future

2013.06.11 - Texas Design Schools: Exhibiting Public Interest Projects

2013.06.07 - Rudy Bruner Award 2013 Medalists Reveal New Thinking About Urban Excellence

2013.06.03 - A city map tracks government in action

2013.05.23 - Inspiring Urban Places Win Rudy Bruner Award

2013.05.11 - Now for Some Historical Perspective on Oak Cliff's Wynnewood Area

2013.04.23 - City council items, mapped by neighborhood

2013.04.19 - A Cool Way To Visualize Dallas City Council Agenda Items

2013.04.19 - Not in your backyard? Not so fast: “The Public Agenda” turns Dallas council’s weekly voting items into neighborhood map

2013.04.17 - Dallas, Texas: Congo Street Green Initiative Provides Important Lessons in Community Revitalization

2013.04.15 - City rolls out conceptual master hike & bike plan for trails

2013.04.08 - Blazing Trails: A dedication to social justice propels today's young professionals

2013.04.01 - Architect.Citizen. Citizen Architect

2013.03.21 - Belden Trail off and running

2013.03.19 - How Artist Rick Lowe, Who's in Dallas Today, Helped Transform Houston's Third Ward

2013.03.15 - On the Road with the Rudy Bruner Award: Congo Street Initiative, Dallas, Texas

2013.02.22 - The Congo Street Initiative Revived a Downtrodden Dallas Neighborhood with Renovated Green Homes

2013.02.15 - 2013 Rudy Bruner Award Finalists Announced

2013.02.10 - Editorial: 10 Drops in the Bucket

2013.02.04 - Congo Street Initiative

2013.01.03 - Belden Trail takes strides

2012

2012.12.11 - bcWORKSHOP - a nonprofit community design center in Dallas, Texas

2012.12.07 - Public Interest Design 100

2012.09.04 - You say, ‘Pleasant Grove’; I say, ‘West Kleberg’: Mapping Dallas’ neighborhoods — all 355 of them (and counting)

2012.06.05 - Public Interest Design: From Idealism to Realism

2012.05.09 - Dallas Design/Architecture Firm bcWorkshop Up For National Service Impact Awards

2012.04.11 - Modern Disaster Relief/Student Housing/Fort-like Contemporary Structure Springs Up at SMU

2012.04.10 - Head of Dallas’ CityDesign Studio takes his shelter after the storm to SMU for the second Engineering & Humanity Week

2012 Spring - City Soul: Reviving the Heartbeat of Communities

2012.03.06 - West Dallas neighborhood plans for future growth

2012.03.05 - Humanitarian Design: Nonprofit Firms and Organizations

2012.01.16 - On MLK Day of Service, bcWORKSHOP Turns History Into Art to Find Way to the Future

2011

2011.07.05 - New ideas for sustainable architecture in the Americas

2011.06.01 - Making the Ideal More Real

2011.05.19 - From Concrete Desert to Oasis: Designing a Better Dallas

2011.05.18 - Animating Dallas: 'I feel like I'm in Austin'

2011.04.28 - Possibilities for engaging City Hall Plaza come to light; now what?

2011.04.27 - Dallas City Hall Plaza Comes Alive — For a Day

2011.04.27 - In Front of Dallas City Hall, Grabbing a Bite on the Living Plaza. 'And It Only Took 30 Years'

2011.04.27 - Event shows potential for bringing people and energy to City Hall Plaza

2011.04.24 - Dallas City Hall pool to welcome waders, toy boats Wednesday for gathering to show plaza's potential

2011.04.15 - On April 27, Dallas City Hall Plaza Will Become (Temporarily, For Now) a 'Living Plaza'

2011.03.27 - Community-driven vs. community-based design

2011.02.22 - Dallas Isn't Growing Much, But At Least the Dead Aren't Fleeing. Not Yet, Anyway

2011.02.10 - Congrats to the winners of the first annual SEED Competition

2011.01.20 - Potemkin Village: Signs Urge Dallas to Keep Homeless in its Heart. What Heart?

2011.01.20 - Public Awareness Campaign Sparks Awareness, Controversy

2011.01.19 - The City's Not Fond of 5750Dallas' Cutouts

2011.01.18 - Life-size signs spark homeless debate in Dallas

2011.01.18 - Someone Doesn't Like New Signs

2011.01.18 - bcWORKSHOP bring Homeless Awareness to Dallas

2011.01.17 - The First 5750Dallas Installation

2011.01.17 - On this MLK Day of Service, Street Art Intended to Spark Talk About Homelessness

2011.01.10 - Jubilee Park Residents Still Wary of DISD's Plans for a New O.M. Roberts Elementary

2011.01.05 - Congo Street - Green Initiative - Dallas

2010

2010.10.20 - Four Outstanding Housing Projects Take the 2010 AIA/HUD Secretary Awards

2010.09.13 - Celebrating the Congo Street Green Initiative’s Six New Homes

2010.09.13 - Home Sweet Home for Congo Street

2010.09.02 - Architects and Non-Profits Rebuild Communities, One Sustainable, Renovated House at a Time

2010.01.18 - On This Day of Service, Emmitt Smith and Family Lend a Helping Hand on Congo Street

2010.01.12 - Cooperation on Congo Street

2010 - Rebuilding homes, restoring faith

2008

2008.12.10 - Urban ReVision: Envisioning a Sustainable City Block in Texas

2008.09.21 - Local architects win outstanding-design honors

2008.03.18 - Design for Living in Southern Dallas