# More City Than Water: A Houston Flood Atlas - Hardcover

by **Lacy M. Johnson** (Editor), **Cheryl Beckett** (Editor)

**2022 Art in Service to the Environment Award, Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter**

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?

_More City than Water_ 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, _More City than Water_ 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.

### Author Biography

Lacy M. Johnson is the author of the essay collection _The Reckonings_ and the memoirs _The Other Side_ and _Trespasses_. Her writing has appeared in _The Best American Essays_, _The Best American Travel Writing_, the _New Yorker_, and elsewhere. She teaches creative nonfiction at Rice University and is the founding director of the Houston Flood Museum.

Cheryl 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.

**Number of Pages:** 264

**Dimensions:** 1.1 x 10.2 x 7.4 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** July 05, 2022

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