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The Future of Houston. Unfiltered.
When I created this blog in October of 2009 I had every intention of writing about all the cool places that Ali and I go to; the shops, restaurants, cafes, museums, parks, everything that makes Houston what it is.
Well as with a lot of projects that pop into my head, I was excited until about it and gung ho until the next project that I would later abandon in a similar fashion came along.
Taking a cue from one of my favorite Houston sites, Is This Houston? as well as both LoFi Melbourne and ‘Round Roanoke I am turning this blog into a photo blog of all things Houston.
I would like to add contributors here as well, so if you’re a Houstonian and would like to contribute to this photoblog, please send me a message.
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Hobby Center (by Mike Rastiello)
This reminds me of the opening scene of The Empire Strikes Back.
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New Flickr Group for Houstonians
When the Houstonist was shut down, the Flickr community it had built over the years was also shut down. I would like to see that group continue to share to share the awesome sights of Houston, so I decided to create a new group.
This is a place for fun, exploration, and all things Houston.
Please share your continue to share your photography of Houston with us.
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Houston, Texas, has been called the “energy capital of the world” due to its role as a major hub of the petroleum and other energy resource industries. The Houston metropolitan area covers almost 2,331,000 hectares (9,000 square miles) along the southeast Texas coastline, with an average elevation of 13 meters (43 feet) above sea level and a population of over 5 million (2006 US Census estimate).
The Houston metropolitan area is also noteworthy as being the largest in the United States without formal zoning restrictions on where and how people can build. This freedom has led to a highly diverse pattern of land use at the neighborhood scale; nevertheless, more general spatial patterns of land use can be recognized in remotely sensed data. These general patterns are particularly evident in nighttime photography of the urban area taken by astronauts on board the International Space Station.
The image depicts the roughly 100-kilometer (60-mile) east-west extent of the Houston metropolitan area. Houston proper is at image center, indicated by a “bull’s-eye” of elliptical white- to orange-lighted beltways and brightly lit white freeways radiating outwards from the central downtown area. Suburban and primarily residential urban areas are indicated by both reddish-brown and gray-green lighted regions, which indicate a higher proportion of tree cover and lower light density.
Petroleum refineries along the Houston Ship Channel are identified by densely lit areas of golden yellow light. Rural and undeveloped land rings the metropolitan area, and Galveston Bay to the southeast (image lower right) provides access to the Gulf of Mexico. Both types of non-urban surface appear dark in the image.
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Even during the gloaming, Sam Houston is ready to charge.
Skyline of Sam Houston statue at Hermann park with Memorial Hermann Medical Plaza in the background.
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