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| All Offcite Posts Tagged: tours | Date Posted | Categories |
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A Stroll Along Hillcroft and 59A ramp arcs over the Hillcroft Transit Center, photos by Rose Kuo In this Hear Our Houston audio tour and contribution to Unexpected City, Raj Mankad, the editor of Cite and OffCite, takes us on a tour of the triangle-shaped area bounded by Highway 59, Hillcroft, and the Westpark tollway. First he braves the feeder [...] |
09.22.11 | Unexpected City |
Layered HistoriesFirst Ward, photographs by Regina Agu In this Hear Our Houston audio tour and contribution to Unexpected City, artist Regina Agu takes us along for her daily wonder-filled walk in the First Ward. As a resident at Elder Street Lofts, she excavates the spiritual from this old graveyard and mental hospital site, appreciates nature’s conquering [...] |
05.26.11 | Place Unexpected City |
An Introduction to GeocachingThis photograph was not manipulated. The motorcycle really is that high off the ground. My Uncle Arnie Cooper is cool like you and I will never be. His Facebook vacation photos eschew Disneyland for backcountry America: here his family coasts through the red rock arches of Bryce Canyon on bikes, there they huddle inside a [...] |
02.18.11 | Place |
ReCite: Sally Walsh’s DowntownImage of Sally Walsh from Cite 9, Spring 1985 “When I walk through Houston buildings today and find good contemporary design, whether or not I had a hand in it, I find myself taking credit… because on this specific turf it flourished with my help.” -Sally Walsh (Cite 28) Last Wednesday with only the help [...] |
06.23.10 | Architecture |
All Aboard for the Art Deco TourUniversity of Houston Downtown from Allen’s Landing, this photo Wikimedia Commons, all others Celeste Williams Houston is home to a wealth of Art Deco and Streamlined Moderne architecture. Celeste Williams received a grant from the Rice Design Alliance in 2000 to develop a self-guided tour along the METRORail. Williams, an architect with Kendall/Heaton Associates, worked [...] |
06.09.10 | Architecture Preservation |
The Last American CityDouglas Milburn’s The Last American City: An Intrepid Walker’s Guide to the City of Houston (Texas Chapbook Press 1979) is available to anyone who really wants to find it on eBay, Amazon, or in the Local/Texana sections of used bookstores across the city. However, in an ideal world, free copies would be distributed at every [...] |
04.06.10 | Reviews |
