Editor’s Note

This issue looks in depth at efforts to protect Fouth Ward and Allen Parkway Village. It also includes Phillip Lopate's seminal essay on public space in Houston. Guest editor John Kaliski writes on the Fourth Ward series: "This series of articles, essays, and short interviews does not attempt to articulate a solution to what is admittedly a complex set of issues involving conflicting interests and ideologies. Rather this overview is an incomplete dictionary of ideas and forms of someo f the personalities who would shape part of Houston's future. The collection of these ideas is only an incremental tool which may help to stimulate a further public dialogue about upcoming decisions which affect not only the Fourth Ward, but teh shape and tenor of Houston."

John Kaliski

Contributors

Dana Cuff; Stephan Fox; Diane Y. Ghirardo; Mark A. Hewitt; Phillip Lopate; Janet M. O'Brien; Bethany Ramey; Drexel Turner; and Bruce C. Webb.