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East Texas town’s residents shape their city’s future with urban planning students

Residents of Jefferson, a small town in East Texas with a rich history that includes almost 100 historic commercial and residential landmarks, are creating a vision for their community’s future with graduate urban planning students and faculty associated with Texas Target Communities.

Texas A&M President Banks meets with school faculty, staff, students

Texas A&M University President M. Katherine Banks presented ideas and initiatives to a School of Architecture faculty, staff and students during a Nov. 7, 2022 visit to the school.

Design as a Path to Healthier Living

Physical activity is a primary factor in three major dimensions of health: physical, mental, and social. The typical postwar U.S. subdivision design had the unintended, yet direct effect of reducing its residents’ physical activity.

One Place. Two Ways to See It.

The Lone Star State welcomed 850 new residents every day between June 2020 and June 2021, said the U.S. Census Bureau. “We have lots of challenges and opportunities connected to this growth,” said Xinyue Ye, the Harold L. Adams Endowed Professor of Urban Planning and an American Association of Geographers Fellow.

The Puzzle of the Past

A handful of years after Indiana Jones inspired a new generation of adventure-driven archaeologists, Nancy Klein was a young college student in Greece, excavating ancient settlements.

Demolition Woman

Buildings that face demolition could soon be transformed into a new type of concrete that would be used to create new structures, an approach that reduces landfill waste and creates jobs.

Life-threatening Conditions in Texas Prisons

Texas is one of at least 13 states without universal air conditioning in its state prisons. The units regularly reach extreme temperatures of over 110 degrees, with at least one unit recording a high of 149 degrees on the heat index, putting incarcerated people and prison staff at risk for illness and even death.

Former student-led businesses included in annual Aggie 100 list

Leaders of the fastest-growing Aggie-owned or led businesses that are in the 2022 Aggie 100 list include four former students from the Texas A&M School of Architecture.

Stop. Gather Critical Information. Proceed.

Flooding tops the list of natural hazards in the United States and many parts of the world. However, in an age when reams of data about almost everything are readily available, real-time flooding data and analysis still remains mostly a concept to first responders and the public.

Students visit architectural jewels in Dallas-Fort Worth

There are plenty of world class architectural treasures in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, and more than 100 students in an environmental design studio took recent three-day field trip to see them firsthand, as well as visit some of the state's top design firms.