You can see some of these photos in the new issue of Cite, "The Beautiful Periphery." The issue is available for purchase at Brazos Bookstore and River Oaks Bookstore, as well as the bookstores at the Menil Collection; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Contemporary Arts Museum; and the Blaffer Art Museum. Read more from Cite 94.
The photos collected here illustrate the incredible vibrance of the flea markets on Airline Drive, the focus of a proposal to improve infrastructure and to spur economic development by Natalia Beard of SWA Group. Though the area, Beard writes, "lacks a centralized water service, experiences repeated bayou flooding, affords only limited police patrol, endures soil and water pollution, and is poorly connected by roads initially conceived for rural traffic only," it is also the place to be for thousands of Houstonians every weekend. Cite contributor and one of Houston's most accomplished architectural photographers, Paul Hester, shows us this world within a world in remarkable detail.
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