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  2. Ephemeral City - Wikipedia

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    Ephemeral City: Cite Looks at Houston is a 2003 nonfiction book edited by Barrie Scardino, William F. Stern and Bruce C. Webb and published by the University of Texas Press. It includes twenty-five essays published in Cite from 1982 until 2000, as well as postscripts from 2002.

  3. Down in Houston - Wikipedia

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    Down in Houston: Bayou City Blues is a 2003 book written by Roger Wood, with photographs from James Fraher, published by the University of Texas Press; it is No. 8 of the Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture.

  4. File:Municipal book of the City of Houston, 1922 (1922 ...

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    Publisher: Houston, Tex. : (s.n.), 1922-Contributing Library: Houston Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

  5. City Building in the New South - Wikipedia

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    City Building in the New South: The Growth of Public Services in Houston, Texas, 1830-1910 is a 1983 non-fiction book by Harold L. Platt, published by Temple University Press. It is the second book of the publisher's "Technology and Urban Growth" series, which debuted in 1980. [1]

  6. Black Dixie - Wikipedia

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    It is a collection of thirteen essays about the history of African-Americans in Houston. It was the first scholarly book to provide a comprehensive history of Houston's black community, [1] and the book's dust jacket referred to it as the first such book of any city in the Southern United States. [2]

  7. History of Houston - Wikipedia

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    The city of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas was founded in 1837 after Augustus and John Allen had acquired land to establish a new town at the junction of Buffalo and White Oak bayous in 1836. Houston served as the temporary capital of the Republic of Texas. Meanwhile, the town developed as a regional transportation and commercial hub.

  8. Category:Books about Houston - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Books about Houston" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... Cinema Houston; City Building in the New South; D.

  9. The Hogg Family and Houston - Wikipedia

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    The Hogg Family and Houston: Philanthropy and the Civic Ideal is a 2009 non-fiction book by Kate Sayen Kirkland, published by the University of Texas Press.It discusses the Hogg family and its philanthropic efforts towards the city of Houston, Texas as well as its place in the progressivism movement.