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Galveston Island State Park.
Public Space, Urban Planning, Socioeconomics, Reviews, Racial Equity, Place, News, Landscape, Land Use Regulation, Infrastructure, Industry, Houston, Environment, Design

Surging Ahead

November 20, 2021
Kristen Schlemmer
Lynn Wyatt Square for the Performing Arts. Via RIOS.
Architecture, Public Space, Urbanism, Urban Planning, Public Transit, Preservation, Art & Culture, Place, News, Landscape, Houston, Events, Environment, Design

Coming Up in Downtown

November 19, 2021
Rodrigo Gallardo
New Public Hydrant. Courtesy Tei Carpenter and Chris Woebken.
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Everyday Infrastructures: An Interview with Tei Carpenter

November 18, 2021
Tei Carpenter
Angelina Forest Products in Lufkin.
Architecture, Reviews, Other Cities, News, Landscape, Land Use Regulation, Infrastructure, Industry, Houston, Events, Environment, Design

Woodn't It Be Nice

November 10, 2021
Jack Murphy
"Airscapes #1." Courtesy University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design.
Architecture, Preservation, Art & Culture, Place, News, Houston, Events, Environment, Design

Hines College Celebrates Historic 75th Anniversary

November 5, 2021
Stephen Schad
Photograph by Casey Dunn from "Santa Fe Modern: Contemporary Design in the High Desert." Courtesy Monacelli.
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Santa Fe Modern: Contemporary Design in the High Desert

October 30, 2021
Helen Thompson
"Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US and Canadian Transit," by Christof Spieler. Second edition, 2021. Published by Island Press.
Public Space, Urbanism, Urban Planning, Socioeconomics, Reviews, Racial Equity, Public Transit, Place, Other Cities, News, Landscape, Land Use Regulation, Infrastructure, Houston, Environment, Design

Falling in Love with Trains, Buses, People—Again

October 27, 2021
John Surico
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
W. H. Monroe and family, 2502 Gray Avenue. Courtesy Woodson Research Center.
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Visualizing Black Houston in 1915

September 22, 2021
Norie Guthrie
Installation view of "Dream Monuments." Photo by Paul Hester. Courtesy Menil Drawing Institute.
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Yesterday’s Monumental Fantasies, Dreamed Today

September 15, 2021
Sam Stoeltje