Improbable Metropolis: Houston's Architectural and Urban History by Bradley, Barrie Scardino

Improbable Metropolis: Houston's Architectural and Urban History

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Improbable Metropolis: Houston's Architectural and Urban History by Bradley, Barrie Scardino

Improbable Metropolis: Houston's Architectural and Urban History

$161.38

Improbable Metropolis: Houston's Architectural and Urban History

$161.38
Author: Barrie Scardino Bradley
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

2021 Good Brick Award Winner from Preservation Houston

Ron Tyler Award for Best Illustrated Book on Texas History and Culture from Texas State Historical Association

2021 Summerlee Book Prize (Nonfiction), Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast at Lamar University

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.



Author: Barrie Scardino Bradley
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 06/02/2020
Pages: 412
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 4.32lbs
Size: 11.30h x 8.80w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781477320198

About the Author
Barrie Scardino BradleyBeaumont, Texas

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