{"title":"Peter Zweig","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"houston-genetic-city-book-peter-zweig-9781948765244","title":"Houston Genetic City","description":"\u003cb\u003eHouston 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Using maps, photographs, timelines, and collages, the book lays out the conditions for new urbanization in this fragile landscape. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Published by Actar Publishers \u0026amp; University of Houston's Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51053981466897,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51053984547089,"sku":"NIN9781948765244","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1948765241.jpg?v=1750771391"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-peter-zweig.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}