| Description |
1 online resource (292 pages) : color illustrations and maps |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
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Floods -- Texas -- Houston
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Floods -- Social aspects -- Texas -- Houston
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Floods -- Environmental aspects -- Texas -- Houston
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Floods -- Political aspects -- Texas -- Houston
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Floods -- Texas -- Houston -- History
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Floods -- Texas -- Houston -- Maps
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NATURE / General
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Floods
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Floods -- Environmental aspects
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Floods -- Social aspects
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Texas -- Houston
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Maps
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Essays.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Johnson, Lacy M., 1978- editor.
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Beckett, Cheryl, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781477325667 |
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1477325662 |
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