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More City than Water: A Houston Flood Atlas
University of Texas Press, 2022 eISBN: 978-1-4773-2567-4 | Cloth: 978-1-4773-2500-1 Library of Congress Classification GB1399.4.T49M+ Dewey Decimal Classification 303.485
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
2022 Art in Service to the Environment Award, Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter 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. 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. 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. Evocative and unique, this is an atlas that uncovers the changing nature of living where the waters rise. See other books on: Environmental aspects | Floods | Houston | Johnson, Lacy M. | Maps See other titles from University of Texas Press |
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More City than Water: A Houston Flood Atlas
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
University of Texas Press, 2022
eISBN: 978-1-4773-2567-4
Cloth: 978-1-4773-2500-1
eISBN: 978-1-4773-2567-4
Cloth: 978-1-4773-2500-1
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. Johnson began collecting flood stories. 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?
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. 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. 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. Evocative and unique, this is an atlas that uncovers the changing nature of living where the waters rise.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
