Design Anthology

Another Side of Houston

One of the first things I was told when we moved to Houston, Texas, in 2018, is that this is not a pedestrian city. The fourth-largest metropolis in the US is a driver’s paradise: a fun park for the vehicularly inclined, a polluted symphony of oversized pickup trucks, sports cars and minivans.

Even so, as a lifelong city slicker

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