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Super Cities!: Houston

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Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Arcadia Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9781540250643
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Super Cities!: Houston written by Michael Burgan and published by Arcadia Children's Books. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes the coolest places are right outside your front door. Learning about Houston's interesting and unique culture has never been so super fun! Did you know that NASA's Manned Space Center has a home in Houston? Or that camels and ostriches race at the Sam Houston Race Park? Have you ever been to the annual Livestock Show and Rodeo? From the Astrodome, to the Texas Medical Center, Super Cities!: Houston covers it all, and is sure to engage any reader with fun facts about the history, culture, and people who make the Space City great. Dive into Galveston Bay, shop till you drop at the Galleria, and attend a Beyonce concert, all right here. Take a peek inside to learn more about the impressive, unusual, super history of Houston!

Super Cities!: Houston

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Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467198501
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Super Cities!: Houston written by Michael Burgan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Where can you watch rockets fly, cowboys rope, and buffalo roam? Houston! Take a trip to this big city on the Gulf of Mexico and discover lots of fun--Texas style!"--Back cover.

Houston Genetic City

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Author : Peter Zweig
Publisher : Actar D, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1638409250
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Houston Genetic City written by Peter Zweig and published by Actar D, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Houston Genetic City offers a vision for a future Houston as a global city, beyond its current petro-economy, its laissez-faire land speculation, and its notorious sprawl. The book speculates about new forms of urbanism that offer resiliency against our changing climate—from flooding to sea level rise to volatile storms—as well as new models for development in fast-urbanizing regions. No city in the United States is a synonymous with unbridled growth and land speculation as the sprawling Texas city of Houston. The book offers a vision for a future Houston as a global city, beyond its current petro-economy, its laissez-faire land speculation, and its notorious sprawl. It speculates about new forms of urbanism that offer resiliency against our changing climate as well as new models for development in fast-urbanizing regions. Though Houston is described as a city, its massive size makes it regional or even megaregional in scale—including a patchwork of satellite downtowns and suburbs, a vast floodplain of bayous and coastal prairie, as well as a long stretch of Gulf Coast. Its lack of zoning means ad hoc developments scatter across the landscape with little formal planning, where urban developments are always provisional and negotiable. Using maps, photographs, timelines, and collages, the book lays out the conditions for new urbanization in this fragile landscape. Published by Actar Publishers & University of Houston’s Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design

City Building in the New South

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Author : Harold L. Platt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book City Building in the New South written by Harold L. Platt and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Free Enterprise City

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Author : Joe R. Feagin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813513218
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Free Enterprise City written by Joe R. Feagin and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mission of this book is to attack the idea that Houston is a conservative role model, a city that succeeds due to its boundless devotion to free enterprise. In this mission, Feagin fails more than he succeeds- partially because to get to his substantive argument a reader has to get through a chapter or two of sociological jargon, and another chapter or two of mind-numbing factual detail about every business leader who has ever lived in Houston. This book would have been better had it been about half its size. When he gets to substance, his attack on Houston fails because he shows nothing more than that Houston has problems just like other cities- pollution, congestion, poverty, sprawl. So Houston isn't utopia. So what? Feagin fails because he makes little effort to compare Houston to other cities, except for a stray remark here and there. So he really didn't persuade me that Houston's problems were due to its allegedly small government, or that more socialistic policies would be more successful. Moreover, Feagin is utterly blind to the unintended consequences of government action. For example, he praises Houston for enacting minimum parking requirements and setback regulations, overlooking the possibility that such regulations contribute to the ills that he complains about by forcing pedestrians to walk through seas of parking to get to buildings. He complains that Houston has less public housing than other cities- but how many Cabrini-Greens and similar fiascoes does a city need? He praises Minneapolis as a role model- overlooking the small fact that Minneapolis has lost a fourth of its 1950 population, while Houston keeps growing. One thing Feagin does right: he points out that Houston is hardly a laissez-faire paradise, in that government has consistently subsidized its business elite through spending on roads, port facilities, convention centers, etc.

Prophetic City

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Author : Stephen L. Klineberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501177931
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Prophetic City written by Stephen L. Klineberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Houston, Texas, long thought of as a traditionally blue-collar black/white southern city, has transformed into one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse metro areas in the nation, surpassing even New York by some measures. With a diversifying economy and large numbers of both highly-skilled technical jobs in engineering and medicine and low-skilled minimum-wage jobs in construction, restaurant work, and personal services, Houston has become a magnet for the new divergent streams of immigration that are transforming America in the 21st century. And thanks to an annual systematic survey conducted over the past thirty-eight years, the ongoing changes in attitudes, beliefs, and life experiences have been measured and studied, creating a compelling data-driven map of the challenges and opportunities that are facing Houston and the rest of the country. In Prophetic City, we'll meet some of the new Americans, including a family who moved to Houston from Mexico in the early 1980s and is still trying to find work that pays more than poverty wages. There's a young man born to highly-educated Indian parents in an affluent Houston suburb who grows up to become a doctor in the world's largest medical complex, as well as a white man who struggles with being prematurely pushed out of the workforce when his company downsizes. This timely and groundbreaking book tracks the progress of an American city like never before. Houston is at the center of the rapid changes that have redefined the nature of American society itself in the new century. Houston is where, for better or worse, we can see the American future emerging.

Invisible in Houston

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Author : Houston Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Invisible in Houston written by Houston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Houston

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Author : Lyn Sirota
Publisher : Weigl Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1489672982
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Houston written by Lyn Sirota and published by Weigl Publishers. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that Houston was founded by two brothers? Augustus and John Allen named the city after Sam Houston, a war hero who later became the first president of Texas. Find out more about this fascinating city in Houston, part of the American Cities series.

Illustrated City Book of Houston

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Author : Houston (Tex.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Illustrated City Book of Houston written by Houston (Tex.) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing annual message of Mayor of the city of Houston with reports of all departments of the city and an analysis of the city.

More City than Water

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Author : Lacy M. Johnson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477325670
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book More City than Water written by Lacy M. Johnson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 Art in Service to the Environment Award, Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter Honorable Mention, 2022 Nonfiction Prize, Writers' League of Texas Writers explore a city’s relationship with chronic catastrophic flooding. 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.

A Place of Dreams

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Author : Geoff Winningham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780892632633
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book A Place of Dreams written by Geoff Winningham and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A visual survey of Houston's landscape, architecture, and people produced in its 150th year. Winningham provides us with a portrait of the city including both its impressive and its eccentric qualities. Using color, he effectively captures the cultural contrasts of the city: the poor neighborhoods with the slick, modern skyscrapers in the background, the Texan with a ten gallon hat mowing the lawn in front of an estate, the bashed in sheet metal siding of a body shop, among others. Winningham's photographs go beyond the usual chamber of commerce tribute to a city to show us with irony and intelligence the diversity of a modern Texas city"--Publisher's description, viewed on lensculture.com.

Houston

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Author : Beth Anne Shelton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780877226079
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Houston written by Beth Anne Shelton and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Key to the City

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Author : Bank of the Southwest, Houston, Tex
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (468 download)

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Download or read book Key to the City written by Bank of the Southwest, Houston, Tex and published by . This book was released on 196? with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Market Cities, People Cities

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Author : Michael Oluf Emerson
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479856797
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Market Cities, People Cities written by Michael Oluf Emerson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: the claim -- How it happens -- Becoming market and people cities -- How government and leaders make cities work -- What residents think, believe, and act on -- Why it matters -- Getting there, being there: transportation and land use -- Environment/economy : and or versus? -- Life together and apart -- Across cities -- To be or not to be -- Acknowledgments -- Methodological appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the authors

Houston, a Chronicle of the Supercity on Buffalo Bayou

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Author : Stanley Siegel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Houston, a Chronicle of the Supercity on Buffalo Bayou written by Stanley Siegel and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cities and Mega-Cities

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Author : Frederic R. Siegel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319931660
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Cities and Mega-Cities written by Frederic R. Siegel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses existing and future global problems of physical, chemical, biological and societal origins faced by increasingly populated cities and mega-cities, and options to mitigate or eliminate them. In nine chapters, the book focuses on rehabilitation and redevelopment projects aimed at converting shantytowns/slums into well serviced neighborhoods via secure housing, clean piped water, adequate access to sanitation, and other amenities for good living conditions. Examples of rehabilitation (restore capacity, structures, efficiency) and redevelopment (redesign, rebuild, attract investment) are addressed in detail, as are the sources of major financing to support such projects and proposals. The final chapters also discuss problems faced by countries with contracting populations, and their viable solutions. The book will be of interest to academics, city planners, land-use planners, NGOs, and designers /architects specializing in urban development and redevelopment.

Houston, the Bayou City

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Author : David G. McComb
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Houston, the Bayou City written by David G. McComb and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: