Houston Genetic City
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Houston Genetic City

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Houston Genetic City

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Houston Genetic City offers a vision for a future Houston as a global city, beyond its current petro-economy, its laissez-faire land speculation, and its notorious sprawl. The book speculates about new forms of urbanism that offer resiliency against our changing climate—from flooding to sea level rise to volatile storms—as well as new models for development in fast-urbanizing regions. No city in the United States is a synonymous with unbridled growth and land speculation as the sprawling Texas city of Houston. The book offers a vision for a future Houston as a global city, beyond its current petro-economy, its laissez-faire land speculation, and its notorious sprawl. It speculates about new forms of urbanism that offer resiliency against our changing climate as well as new models for development in fast-urbanizing regions.Though Houston is described as a city, its massive size makes it regional or even megaregional in scale—including a patchwork of satellite downtowns and suburbs, a vast floodplain of bayous and coastal prairie, as well as a long stretch of Gulf Coast. Its lack of zoning means ad hoc developments scatter across the landscape with little formal planning, where urban developments are always provisional and negotiable.Using maps, photographs, timelines, and collages, the book lays out the conditions for new urbanization in this fragile landscape.Published by Actar Publishers & University of Houston's Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design

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Publisher
Actar
Year
2021
ISBN
9781638409250
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Architecture General

Table of contents

  1. Three Million Shapes: Interview with Thom Mayne
  2. The Genetic City: Matthew Johnson
  3. What Is
  4. Origins
  5. Concentric City
  6. Sprawl City
  7. Satellite City
  8. Genetic City
  9. Vacancy: Photos
  10. DEVELOPER CITY
  11. What If
  12. A Developed Life: Gerald D. Hines In Conversation with Peter Jay Zweig
  13. I Flooding: Resilient Points
  14. The Arc
  15. II Vacancy: Ad Hoc Reuse
  16. Edible City
  17. III Destinations: Class Rooms
  18. Foreign Bodies
  19. Pleasure Terminal - Peakscape
  20. IV Connectivity: Points of Departure - Foreign Links
  21. Cartel - Caroom
  22. V Reboot: Revival of a Fallen Origin
  23. FLOOD: Photos
  24. Houstonism: A Soft Theory. Matthew Johnson
  25. Energy: Photos
  26. ENERGY CITY
  27. What If - A Wicked-Problem-Rich City
  28. I Protect: The Wetline I and II
  29. II Remediate: Poro-City
  30. Tranitower
  31. Future Farm
  32. Waste Scape
  33. III Activate: Hyperport
  34. Bayou Thinkscape
  35. Silicon Bayou
  36. IV Energize: Energy Island
  37. Eighth Wonder: An Imaginary Astrodome. Matthew Johnson
  38. Zone: Photos
  39. UNZONED CITY
  40. What If
  41. I Thick Infrastructure: Centripedus
  42. II Loose Networks: Linked City
  43. Superschool
  44. III High Waters, Shadow Buildings: Air Island
  45. Astropark
  46. Visionary Houston: Jason Logan
  47. EXHIBITIONS AND SYMPOSIA
  48. Acknowledgements