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Still from Solange, "Cranes in the Sky."

Architecture, Public Space, Urbanism, Urban Planning, Reviews, Racial Equity, Preservation, Art & Culture, Place, News, Landscape, Houston, Environment, Design

Do Nothing Without Intention

October 19, 2021

Sheila Mednick

Niki de Saint Phalle during a shooting session at Impasse Ronsin, Paris, 1962. © André Morain.

Architecture, Public Space, Reviews, Art & Culture, News, Houston, Events, Environment, Design

Niki de Saint Phalle, the First Free Woman

October 7, 2021

Sandra Zalman

Race/Ethnicity by census tract in Houston as measured by the 2020 census. Via the COH Planning Department Census Map Viewer.

Urban Planning, Reviews, Place, News, Land Use Regulation, Infrastructure, Industry, Houston, Environment, Design

Successful Cities Require Open Data

October 5, 2021

Katya Abazajian

Architecture, Public Space, Art & Culture, Place, Landscape, Houston, Environment, Design

Cy Twombly Gallery

September 23, 2021

Leonid Furmansky

W. H. Monroe and family, 2502 Gray Avenue. Courtesy Woodson Research Center.

Public Space, Urbanism, Racial Equity, Preservation, Art & Culture, Place, News, Land Use Regulation, Houston, Housing, Environment, Design

Visualizing Black Houston in 1915

September 22, 2021

Norie Guthrie

Installation view of "Dream Monuments." Photo by Paul Hester. Courtesy Menil Drawing Institute.

Architecture, Reviews, Art & Culture, Place, News, Houston, Events, Environment, Design

Yesterday’s Monumental Fantasies, Dreamed Today

September 15, 2021

Sam Stoeltje

Urban Planning, Reviews, Place, News, Land Use Regulation, Infrastructure, Industry, Houston, Environment, Design

Successful Cities Require Open Data

October 5, 2021

Katya Abazajian

The Turkey Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Houston underwater during Hurricane Harvey. Via the Texas A&M Transportation Institute.

Public Space, Urbanism, Urban Planning, Racial Equity, Place, News, Landscape, Land Use Regulation, Infrastructure, Industry, Houston, Environment, Design

Justice in the Sewers

August 30, 2021

Kristen Schlemmer

Architecture, Public Space, Urbanism, Preservation, Place, News, Landscape, Infrastructure, Industry, Houston, Events, Environment, Design

Houston Builds Itself: Works in Progress

July 21, 2021

Jack Murphy

Architecture, Public Space, Urbanism, Urban Planning, Reviews, Art & Culture, Place, Other Cities, Landscape, Land Use Regulation, Infrastructure, Industry, Environment, Design

Both Sides Now

July 20, 2021

Celeste Ponce

Public Space, Urbanism, Urban Planning, Socioeconomics, Racial Equity, Public Transit, Place, News, Land Use Regulation, Infrastructure, Industry, Houston, Events, Environment, Design

Stop TxDOT I-45 and the Viral Replication of Bad Infrastructure Policy

May 20, 2021

Sam Stoeltje

Demonstrators from one of WDP's actions. Courtesy Workers Defense Project.

Architecture, Public Space, Socioeconomics, Racial Equity, Place, Other Cities, News, Land Use Regulation, Interview, Infrastructure, Industry, Houston, Environment

Construction Workers are Essential Workers: an Interview with Workers Defense Project

April 27, 2021

Emily Timm

West Street Recovery co-founder Andrew Cobb leads a plumbing workshop in northeast Houston. Courtesy West Street Recovery.

Architecture, Public Space, Urbanism, Urban Planning, Socioeconomics, Racial Equity, Place, News, Land Use Regulation, Infrastructure, Industry, Houston, Housing, Environment, Design

The Total Emptiness of the Texas Freeze: A Formal Analysis of Winter Storm Uri

March 26, 2021

Alice Liu

An editor's copies of "Prophetic City" and "Improbable Metropolis."

Architecture, Urban Planning, Socioeconomics, Reviews, Place, Industry, Houston

Improbably Prophetic

December 15, 2020

Jack Murphy

Public Space, Socioeconomics, Reviews, Racial Equity, Public Transit, Place, News, Land Use Regulation, Infrastructure, Industry, Houston, Environment, Design