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College students in Austin, Texas, have dwelled in windowless rooms for years − here’s why the city finally decided to ban them

  • Written by Juan Miró, Professor, Dick Clark Chair in Architecture, School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin
imageThousands of windowless rooms like this one have been built near the University of Texas at Austin.Juan Miro

In the past few years, the city of Austin, Texas, has approved the construction of thousands of windowless rooms in new apartment buildings next to The University of Texas at Austin.

Most of these rooms are being leased to UT students,...

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