More City than Water : : A Houston Flood Atlas / / ed. by Lacy M. Johnson, Cheryl Beckett.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• HerausgeberIn: Beckett, Cheryl,; Johnson, Lacy M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 30 color illustrations, 19 maps
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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 with Nature --; Lean to That Flood Song --; From Ice to Inundation --; Lean in to the Living World: A Conversation with Alex Ortiz --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Contributors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781477325667; 9783110766516
• DOI: 10.7560/325001
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Lacy M. Johnson, Cheryl Beckett.

2022 Art in Service to the Environment Award, Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter 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.