More City than Water
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-2500-1 (ISBN)
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.
Lacy M. Johnson is the author of the essay collection The Reckonings and the memoirs The Other Side and Trespasses. Her writing has appeared in The Best American Essays, The Best American Travel Writing, the New Yorker, and elsewhere. She teaches creative nonfiction at Rice University and is the founding director of the Houston Flood Museum. Cheryl Beckett is an associate professor and area coordinator at the Kathryn G. McGovern College of the Arts, University of Houston School of Art, Graphic Design Program. Beckett has served as the creative director at Minor Design in Houston since 1987.
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)
Flood Song (Laura August)
From Ice to Inundation (Cymene Howe)
Lean into the Living World: A Conversation with Alex Ortiz (Lacy M. Johnson)
Acknowledgments
Notes
Contributors
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.06.2022 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 30 color illustrations, 19 maps |
| Verlagsort | Austin, TX |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 1220 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4773-2500-X / 147732500X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4773-2500-1 / 9781477325001 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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