{"product_id":"more-city-than-water-a-houston-flood-atlas-hardback-9781477325001","title":"More City Than Water; A Houston Flood Atlas (Hardback) 9781477325001","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMore City Than Water\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Houston Flood Atlas\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLacy M. Johnson (Edited by), Cheryl Beckett (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477325001, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 July 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages, 30 color illustrations, 19 maps\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 3.8 cm, 1.22 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eHouston is the problem and the solution, the dream and the nightmare, the big blue bubble in a still-red state, a global capital for oil production and the most diverse city in the country, a place menaced by future climate catastrophes and the soup bowl into which it already rained sixty-one inches in one storm: 2017's Hurricane Harvey, which is the particular focus here. Nothing less than this brilliant chorus of writers and mapmakers could capture all that range and contradiction; gathered here, they tell of land and water,  inequality and solidarity, possibility and threat. \"Hurricane Harvey reinforced my belief in the power of water,\" writes marine biologist and native Houstonian Elaine Shen in one of the book's riveting essays, and \u003ci\u003eMore City Than Water\u003c\/i\u003e reinforces my belief in the power of creative atlases.\u003c\/div\u003e— Rebecca Solnit, author of A Paradise Built in Hell and lead author of Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI was gripped by \u003ci\u003eMore City Than Water\u003c\/i\u003e from start to finish. If you didn't know how the historic flows of water, wealth, and power have shaped Houston and cities like it around the nation, the maps and narratives here can be your guide. And the book is an affirmation for those who have never been able to ignore the toxic seep industrial capitalism leaves some communities to drown in. It's not an easy book to read, but these pages are as insistent and inescapable as water pouring into the bayou. The words and images in \u003ci\u003eMore City Than Water\u003c\/i\u003e insist on nothing but the truth.\u003c\/div\u003e— Camille T. Dungy, author of Soil: The History of a Black Mother's Garden\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThis kaleidoscopic essay collection paints an intimate portrait of Houston, Texas, through multiple, and at times divergent, lenses. Houston is ground zero for three of the twenty-first century's defining phenomena––urban development, extraction, and climate change––and as such it has the power to teach us about how people and communities evolve even as the place that unites them changes irrevocably.\u003c\/div\u003e— Elizabeth Rush, author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e[A] strong anthology...the variety of voices and formats gives the work a sense of breadth. It adds up to a tough, thought-provoking depiction of the wreckage wrought by a changing climate.\u003c\/div\u003e— Publishers Weekly\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e[\u003ci\u003eMore City Than Water\u003c\/i\u003e] is beautiful, moving, and, most fundamentally, provocative—a collective portrait of a city defined for good and ill by its relationship to water.\u003c\/div\u003e— Alta Journal\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eMore City Than Water\u003c\/i\u003e should serve as an inspiration for scholars working in the fields of digital and environmental humanities...This book points the way toward imagining 'environmental citizenship' as an essential practice in communities around the world.\u003c\/div\u003e— Frugal Chariot\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThis volume of stories by historians, housing activists, urban planners, climate scientists, marine biologists, poets, artists and longtime residents demonstrate resilience, creativity and even hope.\u003c\/div\u003e— Austin American-Statesman\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eExcellent.\u003c\/div\u003e— New York Times\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNever failing their orientation, the band of Houstonians featured in this book eloquently prove the power of the pen by offering a realistic climate poetics. If persistently and repeatedly applied to densely inhabited flood zones, atlases like this one may lead to a global wake-up call whose alarm may even reach the politicians.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e— The Architect's Newspaper\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWhat makes the volume cohere so well and become more than the sum of its parts is a shared set of concerns about \"our relationship to the land, to the future, to flooding, and to one another.\u003c\/div\u003e— Southwestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eMore City Than Water\u003c\/i\u003e is . . . compelling in many ways. It is academic yet personal, critical yet accessible, local yet global, pessimistic but not cynical, hopeful but not blindly. Its maps are immersive, allowing for extended meditation on existential questions related to human interconnectivity and our collective embeddedness as members of the environment rather than its masters. It will be a worthwhile addition to undergraduate syllabi and, more widely, to all those who care about Houston, climate change, and human rights.\u003c\/div\u003e— H-Net Reviews (H-Water)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eMore City Than Water\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautiful object, beautiful in the way that wrinkles and scars mark skin with truths of a life lived...This is not a book for bystanders. Readers will be implicated, gaining not only critical insights into the infrastructure of one flood-ridden city but also surprising connections to other cities, from Houston to Harlem and to Hermosillo...Listening is only the first step, and the noise of \u003ci\u003eMore City Than Water\u003c\/i\u003e will linger with you long after you close its pages.\u003c\/div\u003e— Western American Literature\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2022 Art in Service to the Environment Award, Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention, 2022 Nonfiction Prize, Writers' League of Texas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eWriters explore a city's relationship with chronic catastrophic flooding.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  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?\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMore City than Water\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eMore City than Water\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: More City Than Water (Lacy M. Johnson)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHistory\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGusher (Sonia Hamer)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHistory Displaced: Flooding the First Black Municipality in Texas (Aimee VonBokel with Tanya Debose and Alexandria Parson)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnthropocene City: Houston as Hyperobject (Roy Scranton)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIf You Didn't Know Your House Was Sinking (Martha Serpas)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMeander Belt: A Native Houstonian Reflects on Water (Elaine Shen)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOmbrophobia (Fear of Rain) (Cheryl Beckett)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Task in Front of Us: A Conversation with Raj Mankad (Lacy M. Johnson)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMemory\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHarvey Alerts (Sonia Del Hierro)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Only Thing You Have\/Trace of a Trace (Lyric Evans-Hunter)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThings That Drown, and Why (Bruno Ríos)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHigher Ground (Bryan Washington)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Gallery of Cracked Pavement: A Walking Tour (Dana Kroos)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe City That Saved Itself (Allyn West)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe All Breathe the Same Air: A Conversation with P. Grace Tee Lewis (Lacy M. Johnson)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCommunity\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClimate Dignity: Reading Baldwin after Harvey and in the Near Northside (Daniel Peña)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLook East (Susan Rogers)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCommunity Power (Ben Hirsch)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Whole City on Stilts: Hydraulic Citizenship in Houston (Dominic Boyer)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSuburban Design with Nature (Geneva Vest)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFlood Song (Laura August)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Ice to Inundation (Cymene Howe)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLean into the Living World: A Conversation with Alex Ortiz (Lacy M. 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