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    Heads in the Mud

    Aug 01, 2018 4 minutes
    By Michael Hardy

    “THE PEOPLE OF HOUSTON and their officials will have to decide whether they are building a great city or merely a great population.”

    These words, from a 1929 city planning report (mostly ignored), were written when Houston had a population of about 300,000 people spread across approximately 70 square miles. Today nearly 7 million people live in the Houston metro, an area the size of New Jersey; the region is expected to add another 5 million people by 2050.

    This is certainly a great population. Whether it’s a great city was called into question, yet again, by Hurricane Harvey, which dumped up to 50 inches of rain across a vast swath of southeastern Texas, killing 82

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