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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson, Lacy M., 1978- editor.

Beckett, Cheryl, 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.

Floods--Environmental aspects.

Floods--Social aspects.

Texas--Houston.

Genre:

essays.

Essays

History

Maps

Essays.

Physical Description:

ix, 292 pages : color illustrations , color maps ; 27 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin,TX : University of Texas Press, 2022.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : More city than water / Lacy M. Johnson

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781477325001

147732500X

OCLC:

1268983232

Publisher Number:

40031265713