Name: Improbable Metropolis: Houston'S Architectural and Urban History (Roger Fullington Series in Architecture) (en Inglés)
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Author: Barrie Scardino Bradley
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Improbable Metropolis: Houston'S Architectural and Urban History (Roger Fullington Series in Architecture) (en Inglés)

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University Of Texas Press

Autor

Barrie Scardino Bradley

Año

2020

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

412

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Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9781477320198

Categorías

Historia de la arquitectura

Improbable Metropolis: Houston'S Architectural and Urban History (Roger Fullington Series in Architecture) (en Inglés)

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Winner, Good Brick Award, Preservation Houston, 2020 Just over 180 years ago, the city of Houston was nothing more than an alligator-infested swamp along the Buffalo Bayou that spread onto a flat, endless plain. Today, it is a sprawling, architecturally and culturally diverse metropolis. How did one transform into the other in such a short period? Improbable Metropolis uses the built environment as a guide to explore the remarkable evolution that Houston has undergone from 1836 to the present. Houston’s architecture, an indicator of its culture and prosperity, has been inconsistent, often predictable, sometimes bizarre, and occasionally extraordinary. Industries from cotton, lumber, sugar, and rail and water transportation, to petroleum, healthcare, biomedical research, and aerospace have each in turn brought profit and attention to Houston. Each created an associated building boom, expanding the city’s architectural sophistication, its footprint, and its cultural breadth. Providing a template for architectural investigations of other American cities, Improbable Metropolis is an important addition to the literature on Texas history.