Harvey Alerts

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: More City Than Water 1
4. History
5. Gusher 12
6. History Displaced: Flooding the First Black Municipality in Texas 24
7. Anthropocene City: Houston as Hyperobject 32
8. If You Didn’t Know Your House Was Sinking 48
9. Meander Belt: A Native Houstonian Reflects on Water 54
10. Ombrophobia (Fear of Rain) 64
11. The Task in Front of Us: A Conversation with Raj Mankad 70
12. Memory
13. Harvey Alerts 82
14. The Only Thing You Have: Trace of a Trace 88
15. Things That Drown, and Why 98
16. Higher Ground 110
17. The Gallery of Cracked Pavement: A Walking Tour 118
18. The City That Saved Itself 150
19. We All Breathe the Same Air: A Conversation with P. Grace Tee Lewis 158
20. Community
21. Climate Dignity: Reading Baldwin after Harvey and in the Near Northside 170
22. Look East 182
23. Community Power 190
24. A Whole City on Stilts: Hydraulic Citizenship in Houston 202
25. Suburban Design with Nature 216
26. Lean to That Flood Song 226
27. From Ice to Inundation 246
28. Lean in to the Living World: A Conversation with Alex Ortiz 258
29. Acknowledgments 267
30. Notes 269
31. Contributors 284