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#Houston flood cracked#

Suburban Design with Nature (Geneva Vest).

A Whole City on Stilts: Hydraulic Citizenship in Houston (Dominic Boyer).

Climate Dignity: Reading Baldwin after Harvey and in the Near Northside (Daniel Peña).

We All Breathe the Same Air: A Conversation with P.

The City That Saved Itself (Allyn West).

#Houston flood cracked#

The Gallery of Cracked Pavement: A Walking Tour (Dana Kroos).Things That Drown, and Why (Bruno Ríos).The Only Thing You Have/Trace of a Trace (Lyric Evans-Hunter).The Task in Front of Us: A Conversation with Raj Mankad (Lacy M.Sam Houston State University's main campus, The. Ombrophobia (Fear of Rain) (Cheryl Beckett) Nicholas caused some damage and flooding in coastal communities when it roared ashore overnight as a Category 1 hurricane.Meander Belt: A Native Houstonian Reflects on Water (Elaine Shen).If You Didn’t Know Your House Was Sinking (Martha Serpas).Anthropocene City: Houston as Hyperobject (Roy Scranton).

History Displaced: Flooding the First Black Municipality in Texas (Aimee VonBokel with Tanya Debose and Alexandria Parson).Introduction: More City Than Water (Lacy M.

Evocative and unique, this is an atlas that uncovers the changing nature of living where the waters rise. Designed by University of Houston seniors from the Graphic Design program, each map, imaginative and precise, shifts our understanding of the flooding, the public’s relationship to it, and the fraught reality of rebuilding. Both a literary and a cartographic anthology, More City than Water features striking maps of Houston’s floodplains, waterways, drainage systems, reservoirs, and inundated neighborhoods. More City than Water brings together essays, conversations, and personal narratives from climate scientists, marine ecologists, housing activists, urban planners, artists, poets, and historians as they reflect on the human geography of a region increasingly defined by flooding. Although these stories attested to the infinite variety of experience in America’s most diverse city, they also pointed to a consistent question: What does catastrophic flooding reveal about this city, and what does it obscure? 2022 Art in Service to the Environment Award, Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter Shortly after Hurricane Harvey dumped a record 61 inches of rain on Houston in 2017, celebrated writer and Bayou City resident Lacy M.