Table of Contents
Contributors
Terrence Doody; Karl Kilian; Michael Kimmins; Claudia Kolker; Barry Moore; Patrick Peters; Barrie Scardino; Mitchell J. Shields; Steven R. Strom; Linda L. Sylvan; and David Theis.
Cite 50: Hidden
Spring 2001
Editor’s Note
Cite 50 was guest edited by Terrence Doody who begins a special section, "Hidden Houston," with the following:
"Houston is too big, too much, to be taken in by a single glance or a single idea, and its parts are hidden from us in many ways. They are obviously hidden by space and time, by the city's sheer size and complex history. But they are also hidden by the space and time that each of us defines in the routes and routines of our daily lives.
"The city most of us know best lines the paths we take to and from work, the carpool circuit, the weekend errands, the shortcuts to our favorite places for fast food and slow, and whatever it is we follow over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house. These versions of the city are utilitarian, intimate, and fragmentary. They have boundaries we maintain and boundaries we are unaware of. And bounded by our routines, we don't know what we are missing — in the same way we don't know the inside of someone else's history, in an old neighborhood that's disappeared, until they map it for us in conversation ... "
Terrence Doody