{"product_id":"more-city-than-water-lacy-m-johnson-9781477325001","title":"More City Than Water: A Houston Flood Atlas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2022 Art in Service to the Environment Award, Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention, 2022 Nonfiction Prize, Writers' League of Texas\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWriters explore a city's relationship with chronic catastrophic flooding.\u003c\/b\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lacy M. Johnson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 147732500X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477325001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/05\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.20h x 7.40w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/09\/2022","brand":"Lacy M. Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44057266979071,"sku":"9781477325001","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4022a5bd-7b0e-481e-9faf-e35579077061.jpg?v=1685045983","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/more-city-than-water-lacy-m-johnson-9781477325001","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}