Resources
https://kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/without-zoning-equity-houston-becomes-more-complicated
“Without Zoning, Equity in Houston Becomes More Complicated: Kinder Institute for Urban Research.” Kinder Institute for Urban Research | Rice University, kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/without-zoning-equity-houston-becomes-more-complicated. Accessed 10 May 2026.
“Houston’s Third Ward: Gentrification and the Displacement of a Black Wall Street.” Historic Black Wall Street, 23 Oct. 2025, historicblackwallstreet.com/houstons-third-ward-gentrification-and-the-displacement-of-a-black-wall-street/.
“Houston’s Third Ward: Gentrification and the Displacement of a Black Wall Street.” Historic Black Wall Street, 23 Oct. 2025, historicblackwallstreet.com/houstons-third-ward-gentrification-and-the-displacement-of-a-black-wall-street/.
ThirdWardUrbanRedevelopmentPlanMF.pdf
April 2005 Third Ward Urban Redevelopment Plan, www.houstontx.gov/planhouston/sites/default/files/plans/ThirdWardUrbanRedevelopmentPlanMF.pdf. Accessed 10 May 2026.
In class readings
Brian Larkin, “Promising Forms: The Political Aesthetics of Infrastructure,” in The Promise of Infrastructure, Hannah Appel, Nikhil Anand, and Akhil Gupta (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2018), 175–202.
Robert Fishman, "Introduction," Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia (Basic Books, 1987), 3–17.
Shannon Mattern, "A City is Not A Computer," in A City is Not A Computer: Other Urban Intelligences (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021), 51–72.
Jeanne Haffner, “The Dangers of Eco-Gentrification,”Links to an external site. The Guardian, 6 May 2015.