With suburban sprawl a long-standing issue in Texas, one San Antonio-based architecture firm is aiming to strengthen and revitalize its city's downtown core.
San Antonio sprawl
In this booming Sunbelt city, downtown revitalization is a particularly challenging goal. While the United States as a whole has experienced something of an urban renaissance in recent years — between 2010 and 2014, downtown populations grew faster than those of the surrounding districts in most American cities — San Antonio has remained overwhelmingly suburban. Within the last decade, more new housing has been built in the sprawl zone than within the city limits, and the number of jobs in the downtown core has actually fallen. Most of the new residential and commercial development continues to take place on the outskirts of the metropolitan area, pushing the boundaries ever outward.
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