The Xerox Centre in Las Colinas, built in 1982 and now known as the Urban Towers, boasted its own monorail station.
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A 1980s Edge City Comes Back From the Brink, Minus Its Monorail
The master-planned Texas business hub of Las Colinas was built around cars and offices. Now it’s embraced apartments and evolved into a genuine — and quirky — urban area.
When talk turns to postwar planned communities in the US, the names that come up are often places like Columbia, Maryland, and Irvine, California — leafy suburban developments from the 1960s that have grown taller since but whose animating spirit was fundamentally horizontal.