More city than water : a Houston flood atlas /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:	First edition, 2022
Imprint:	Austin : University of Texas Press, 2022.
Description:	1 online resource (292 pages) : color illustrations and maps.
Language:	English
Subject:	Floods -- Texas -- Houston. Floods -- Social aspects -- Texas -- Houston. Floods -- Environmental aspects -- Texas -- Houston. Floods -- Political aspects -- Texas -- Houston. Floods -- Texas -- Houston -- History. Floods -- Texas -- Houston -- Maps. Floods. Floods -- Environmental aspects. Floods -- Social aspects. Texas -- Houston. History. Maps.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13564066

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Other authors / contributors:	Johnson, Lacy M., 1978- editor. Beckett, Cheryl, editor.
ISBN:	9781477325667 1477325662 9781477325001 147732500X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	"This anthology is a literary and cartographic interpretation of Houston's floodplains, waterways, drainage systems, reservoirs, and inundated zones. Just after Hurricane Harvey dumped a record sixty-one inches of rain on the city in 2017, writer and Houston resident Lacy M. Johnson created the Houston Flood Museum, an online archive for stories about Harvey and other floods. A year later, she began commissioning and collecting the essays that appear in this volume, each of which is illustrated with a map created by seniors in the graphic design program at UH. She asked each contributor, "What does chronic catastrophic flooding reveal about this city and the way we live in it, and what does it obscure?" With essays from climate scholars, marine ecologists, housing activists, architects, urban planners, artists, poets, and historians, the book is intentionally interdisciplinary to reflect the complexity of the flooding that increasingly defines Houston"--
Other form:	Print version: More city than water. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2022 9781477325001 147732500X

Table of Contents:

History
Gusher / Sonia Hamer
History Displaced: Flooding the First Black Municipality in Texas / Aimee Vonbokel with Tanya Debose and Alexandria Parson
Anthropocene City: Houston as Hyperobject / Roy Scranton
If You Didn't Know Your House Was Sinking / Martha Serpas
Meander Belt: A Native Houstonian Reflects on Water / Elaine Shen
Ombrophobia (Fear of Rain) / Cheryl Beckett
The Task in Front of Us: A Conversation with Raj Mankad / Lacy M. Johnson
Memory
Harvey Alerts / Sonia Del Hierro
The Only Thing You Have: Trace of a Trace / Lyric Evans-Hunter
Things That Drown, and Why / Bruno Ríos
Higher Ground / Bryan Washington
The Gallery of Cracked Pavement: A Walking Tour / Dana Kroos
The City That Saved Itself / Allyn West
We All Breathe the Same Air: A Conversation with P. Grace Tee Lewis / Lacy M. Johnson
Community
Climate Dignity: Reading Baldwin after Harvey and in the Near Northside / Daniel Peña
Look East / Susan Rogers
Community Power / Ben Hirsch
A Whole City on Stilts: Hydraulic Citizenship in Houston / Dominic Boyer
Suburban Design with Nature / Geneva Vest
Lean to That Flood Song / Laura August
From Ice to Inundation / Cymene Howe
Lean in to the Living World: A Conversation with Alex Ortiz / Lacy M. Johnson

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