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Read this sheet from the water upwards. One straight avenue leaves the lake, climbs through the grid and stops at a green square on the rise: in 1839, before there was a city to speak of, that line was already the plan.
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The Colorado crosses the sheet from the left as a long, narrow lake that widens towards the lower right. North of it, downtown is a square grid held between two thin creeks lined with green: Shoal Creek to the west, Waller Creek to the east. Through the middle of the grid, one avenue runs straight from the lake up to a green square near the top of the old plan, Congress Avenue and the grounds of the Capitol. On the right, a motorway runs north and south along the eastern side of the old town, the heaviest stroke of the drawing.
South of the river, the streets lose that order: no plan was drawn there in 1839, and the neighbourhoods grew piece by piece. On the left, a large green mass lies along the southern bank, Zilker Park. Inside the grid, small green rectangles mark the squares reserved by the first plan; they read clearly when you come closer. The Capitol itself is a building and is not drawn: only its grounds take the green.
Water does two jobs here: the lake across the sheet, broad enough to carry a deep ink, and the two creeks, thin enough to disappear if the ink is too pale. Choose it for the creeks, since they are what frame the old plan. Green follows the creeks too, and gathers in the Capitol grounds and the park along the southern bank; a green clearly set off from the water keeps the two lines distinct where they run side by side.
Portrait, centred just west of the engraved point: the lake across the lower half, the grid of 1839 between its two creeks above it, Congress Avenue rising through the middle to the Capitol grounds, Zilker Park on the left. The university campus north of the Capitol and the far ends of the lake leave first. Come closer and the squares sharpen into clear rectangles, but the lake shrinks to a strip along the bottom.
The title, one line under it, the coordinates. On a plan built around one avenue, the caption can give your own cross street: the block you knew, the corner where you turned off Congress.
Sixteen inks, in the configurator’s order. It is not in the catalogue, but you will find it in the palette library, filed under its material.
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In 1839, Edwin Waller’s Plan for the City of Austin created the block system north of the Colorado River, between Shoal Creek to the west and Waller Creek to the east. Four blocks were reserved as public squares, three of which are intact today, and a grand square was set aside for the capitol of the new republic, on axis with Congress Avenue. The two creeks still draw the sides of the grid, in thin lines of water and green.
In 1887 the city built its first permanent bridge at Congress Avenue, replacing a series of pontoon bridges, and the avenue carried on across the river to the southern shore. The piers and vaults of the concrete bridge that followed in the 1910s are still in the one that crosses the lake today: on the sheet, the axis of the old plan simply continues over the water.
The Longhorn Dam was completed in 1960, just beyond the right edge of the sheet, and with it the river through the middle of the city became Town Lake, known today as Lady Bird Lake. That is why the Colorado crosses the sheet as a long, still body of water, widening as it nears the dam, rather than as a river.
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For someone who has left Austin, this is the city on a single sheet: the lake they crossed, the avenue they knew by heart, the creek at the end of their street.
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