More city than water : a Houston flood atlas / edited by Lacy M. Johnson and Cheryl Beckett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beckett, Cheryl, editor.

Johnson, Lacy M., 1978- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Floods--Texas--Houston.

Floods.

Floods--Social aspects--Texas--Houston.

Floods--Environmental aspects--Texas--Houston.

Floods--Political aspects--Texas--Houston.

Floods--Texas--Houston--History.

Floods--Texas--Houston--Maps.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 292 pages) : color illustrations, color maps

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, 2022.

Summary:

"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."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: More city than water

History

Gusher

History displaced: flooding the first Black municipality in Texas

Anthropocene city: Houston as hyperobject

If you didn't know your house was sinking

Meander belt: a native Houstonian reflects on water

Ombrophobia (fear of rain)

The task in front of us: a conversation with Raj Mankad

Memory

Harvey alerts

The only thing you have: trace of a trace

Things that drown, and why

Higher ground

The gallery of cracked pavement: a walking tour

The city that saved itself

We all breathe the same air: a conversation with P. Grace Tee Lewis

Community

Climate dignity: reading Baldwin after Harvey and in the Near Northside

Look east

Community power

A whole city on stilts: hydraulic citizenship in Houston

Suburban design within nature

Lean to that flood song

From ice to inundation

Lean in to the living world: a conversation with Alex Ortiz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781477325674

1477325670

9781477325667

1477325662

OCLC:

1292706307