{"product_id":"more-city-than-water-a-houston-flood-atlas-hardcover","title":"More City Than Water: A Houston Flood Atlas - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLacy M. Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eCheryl Beckett\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2022 Art in Service to the Environment Award, Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Shortly after Hurricane Harvey dumped a record 61 inches of rain on Houston in 2017, celebrated writer and Bayou City resident Lacy M. Johnson began collecting flood stories. Although these stories attested to the infinite variety of experience in America's most diverse city, they also pointed to a consistent question: What does catastrophic flooding reveal about this city, and what does it obscure? \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMore City than Water\u003c\/i\u003e brings together essays, conversations, and personal narratives from climate scientists, marine ecologists, housing activists, urban planners, artists, poets, and historians as they reflect on the human geography of a region increasingly defined by flooding. Both a literary and a cartographic anthology, \u003ci\u003eMore City than Water\u003c\/i\u003e features striking maps of Houston's floodplains, waterways, drainage systems, reservoirs, and inundated neighborhoods. Designed by University of Houston seniors from the Graphic Design program, each map, imaginative and precise, shifts our understanding of the flooding, the public's relationship to it, and the fraught reality of rebuilding. Evocative and unique, this is an atlas that uncovers the changing nature of living where the waters rise. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLacy M. Johnson is the author of the essay collection \u003ci\u003eThe Reckonings\u003c\/i\u003e and the memoirs \u003ci\u003eThe Other Side\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTrespasses\u003c\/i\u003e. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Travel Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She teaches creative nonfiction at Rice University and is the founding director of the Houston Flood Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCheryl Beckett is an associate professor and area coordinator at the Kathryn G. McGovern College of the Arts, University of Houston School of Art, Graphic Design Program. Beckett has served as the creative director at Minor Design in Houston since 1987.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 10.2 x 7.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 05, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766750576928,"sku":"9781477325001","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c828ed9b6853ffe7fed23e998e49bb3e.webp?v=1780298142","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/more-city-than-water-a-houston-flood-atlas-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}