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How the Barker and Addicks Dams Work
Florence Tang is a journalist, architectural designer, and manager at Kendall/Heaton Associates. Evan O’Neil is a graphic designer in Houston. Andrew Albers, Vice President at OJB Landscape...
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A Green New Deal: Recommended Readings on Hurricane Harvey
Cite is launching a new series of weekly recommend readings from experts and our editorial committee. We begin with a selection by Rice Architecture Dean Sarah Whiting, who has chosen pieces that were...
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Kashmere Gardens After Harvey: Grassroots Action as Wait for Government Drags On
“The City Houston is open for business,” Mayor Sylvester Turner announced eight days after Hurricane Harvey began its roughshod path through the city. Downtown’s office buildings are humming but a...
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Mid-Century Elevated: How an Architecturally Significant House Was Lifted...
A large portion of the housing stock in and near Meyerland has flooded three times over the last three years. Homeowners there have lessons to share about the hard choices people across the city are...
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“Equal Funds for Equal Need”: Learning from New Orleans and the Loss of...
After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans faced many of the same existential questions that Houston is now facing about how, where, and what to rebuild. The scale of devastation in New Orleans led to many...
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Post-Harvey Houston Can Learn from Suburbs Designed with Nature
After Harvey, Houston’s sprawling developments have been blamed for contributing to flooding of those downstream by paving over the prairies and ecosystems that once stored and drained water. The...
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Crossword
Here are the answers to the Cite 100 crossword puzzle. Please note that we made a mistake with four down. The correct answer is “JetEra,” which does not fit into the given spaces. Our apologies. We...
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Design Could Save Your Life: Revisiting the H2Ouston Living in Floodplains Tour
On a bright Saturday last March, the Rice Design Alliance hosted its annual tour. This year’s focus was “H20uston: Living in Floodplains,” and the tour opened six structures to the public—four houses,...
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Houston Flood Management, A Literature Review: What We Know and Where We Go...
In 1977, The Rice Design Alliance published The Bayou Strategy, a book of clear analysis of flooding in the Houston area alongside architecture studio proposals for multi-pronged solutions to...
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A More “Resilient” Houston: What Does That Mean and How Do We Get There?
As people in the Houston have transitioned from rescue and recovery to damage assessment and rebuilding, as people put their lives back together, a word has crept into more common usage: “resilience.”...
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Cite 100
The one hundredth issue of Cite is out and available at independent bookstores. Read below guest editor and graphic designer Herman Dyal’s letter introducing the issue. It was the early 1980s and...
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Constructing Houston’s Future: The Architecture of Arthur Evan Jones and...
Cities define themselves by their skylines, collections of anonymous highrises made distinctive by an icon or two that stand out. We know those icons – the Space Needle in Seattle, the Empire State...
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A Call to Rebuild Houston by Design: Mitigation Alone is Not Enough
History provides a guide for how Houston can rebuild after the devastation of Harvey. In the wake of destructive floods in the early twentieth century, both Los Angeles and San Antonio undertook...
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An “Extraordinary Diversity of Solutions” for Flooding in the...
This reflection by the late Thomas Colbert originally appeared in Delft Delta Design: The Houston Galveston Bay Region, a 2015 publication that came out of a collaboration of the University of Houston,...
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Sunday Streets Route in Energy Corridor a Boon to Local Businesses Flooded by...
Josephine’s Day Spa and Salon at Eldridge Parkway lost everything but the chandeliers to the floodwaters of Harvey. In addition to scissors, blowdryers, products, and earnings, several employees also...
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Bold Visions for Buffalo Bayou: Proposals Incorporate Park Access, Housing,...
In the aftermath of two “500-year” floods in the last three years and more recently a “1,000-year” flood following Hurricane Harvey, a two-book volume illustrating the work of the Risky Habit[at]:...
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Harvey to be a Turning Point for Equitable Transit-Oriented Development in...
The urban ambitions of our government leaders — so easy to dismiss in the past as nice words with no budget — may get a serious infusion of funds because of Harvey. The Texas delegation that Governor...
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An Even Trade: Why the Dutch Can Both Teach and Learn from Houston about...
We all know the story by now. Hurricane Harvey has been framed as a problem of urban form: a challenge created by the collision of intense rainfall and urban sprawl. Indeed, Houston has acquired an...
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Market-Based Environmentalism: A Review of Jim Blackburn’s A Texas Plan for...
Jim Blackburn loves (and lives) the Texas Gulf Coast. Much has been written and debated on how to mitigate the impacts of industry and climate change on future destructive flood events. But the policy...
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Food and Revolution: Understanding the History and Politics of Our Plates
David Leftwich is Executive Editor of Sugar and Rice and will be moderating a panel at the upcoming Houston Eats! Conference on February 2nd and 3rd at the University of Houston’s main campus. Early in...
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