We have found a wonderful use for some beautiful trees that were felled during Hurricane Ike – we are planting them. And yes, we know they won’t grow back. [Watch the short video.]
Posts By: MattBaumgarten
Houston, “The Bayou City,” has had a tense relationship with its bayous and their floodplains. As with any city with much of its development in the floodplain, flooding is always a very real risk — and it isn’t just an infrastructure problem. It is a PR problem. [This post originally appeared on the American Planning Association’s Kid’s… Read more »
Planning is well underway for the “Flash Flood” event along Houston’s White Oak Bayou at Studewood Park on February 28th. There are a lot of details still to be determined, but we are working with local schools to help teach students about our bayous and their significance to life in Houston, and to encourage student… Read more »
Currently organization is underway to implement an installation art project depicting the physical influence that the one hundred year flood event has on the urban landscape. While “Flood Insurance Rate Maps” (FIRMs) are a standard measure of flood influences in the region, these forces can be difficult to understand in the physical landscape. This project… Read more »
“A Citizen’s Forum for Engaging Houston’s Most Significant Open Space System” Historically, water has shaped the broad expanses of the Houston region, watershed by watershed, culminating in the city’s most debated landscape feature, its Bayous. If one lives in our self proclaimed “Bayou City”, how are we as individuals understanding, preserving, enhancing, degrading and generally… Read more »