The Purple State of Texas
Extracted from a national map by datavisualization wiz John Nelson, here’s a map of Texas showing where votes for Romney and Obama came from, plotted point by point, by county. Using data from the...
View ArticleWhere Houston’s Demolitions Went Down Last Year
Each of these purple specks — or black holes, depending on your perspective — represents a demolition permit issued by the city in 2012. The planning and development department has posted this and a...
View ArticleHouston’s Class Divide, Color-Coded
This map from Rise of the Creative Class author Richard Florida’s series at The Atlantic on “class-divided cities” shows where Houston’s working, service, and creative classes live. Denoted here in...
View ArticleWhere Houston’s Building Offices
Where’s all the new office space in Houston? Here, reports Metrostudy’s David Jarvis. The lemming-like red dots cramming together on the Beltway and Katy Fwy. out toward the Grand Parkway denote...
View ArticleNow on Your Mobile Device: Why You Can’t Breathe
A team comprising researchers at UH, Air Alliance Houston, and the American Lung Association have launched OzoneMap, an app that “monitors chemical weather,” reports John Metcalfe of The Atlantic blog...
View ArticleA ‘Field Guide’ to Houston Food Trucks
A new book declares which among the estimated 1,400 are the best food trucks in Houston: Houston Chronicle food writer and UH marketing professor Paul Galvani tells a 392-page story of what he calls...
View ArticleSee Houston Sprawl
Putting Google’s Landsat Annual Time Lapse function to work, Texas architect Samuel Aston Williams has created animated .GIFs that give a satellite’s view of how certain cities — Shanghai, Atlanta,...
View ArticleGaining in Houston’s Gayborhoods
So home prices are rising in urban areas — no surprise there. But nowhere are those prices rising faster than in so-called “gayborhoods.” That’s according to Jed Kolko, crunching the numbers for...
View ArticleWhere Downtown Has Developed, Is Developing, and Might Develop Some More
Last week’s announcement by Chevron of the 50-story tower it plans to add to its blue-glass twins is just the latest development in the 77002. This map from the Downtown Management District shows...
View ArticleWhere Houston’s Dog and Cat Shelters Can Be Found
Here’s a map from the nonprofit Adopt-a-Pet (sponsored in part by Purina and Bayer, the manufacturer of the Advantage pet meds) you can use to locate the nearest dog shelter in Houston. After the...
View ArticleStudying Houston’s Roadside Air Quality
Another source of Houston’s pollution has got the attention of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality: tailpipes. Starting in January, the agency will place a pair of monitors within 160 ft. of...
View ArticleWhere Houston’s Next Rent-a-Bike Stations Will Be
As many as 8 new bike-sharing stations could open inside the Loop in the next 2 weeks. Will Rub, director of Houston B-Cycle, tells Swamplot that permits are in hand and the bikes forthcoming for...
View ArticleAnimated Growth Maps Help Show Off Houston as ‘The City with No Limits’
If the Greater Houston Partnership is eager to include some exhibits or animated GIFs to go along with the video footage of cars driving through imaginary barriers, shiny skyscrapers, and smiling...
View ArticleNew Oil Company Report Holds Out Houston as Shining Example of a ‘Sprawling...
The folks at Shell may not have known a new campaign was about to kick off declaring Houston to be “The City of No Limits,” but a new report from the oil company on the future of cities around the...
View ArticleA Dire Warning for Houston, 1965: In Case of Nuclear Attack, Property Values...
Nuclear historian Alex Wellerstein, creator of the online Nukemap nuclear-blast simulator, finds the following charming nugget in a September 1965 report issued by the nonprofit Institute for Defense...
View ArticleWhere All Those Older Apartments Are Still Twinkling in the Houston...
Before delving into the communities residents have built for themselves at the St. Cloud apartment complex on Hillcroft in Gulfton, Thai Xuan Village on Broadway near Hobby Airport, and Greenspoint...
View ArticleWhere All the New Apartments Are Going Up in Houston
The Chronicle’s Erin Mulvaney has thrown data from Apartment Data Services into this interactive Google map — to give you a zoomable picture of where all the new apartments are heading in Houston. The...
View ArticleHouston’s Hotel Building Boom
If you’ve been adding up the new Embassy Suites planned for Hughes Landing in The Woodlands, the 14-story combo Hampton Inn and Homewood Suites now beginning construction on Crawford St. between...
View ArticleNuHabitat’s Asking-Price Histories Are Back in Action
Home listing sleuths who’d been relying on historical asking-price data from NuHabitat (when most other consumer-facing MLS sources keep that info hidden) will be relieved to hear that the feature has...
View ArticleHouston Housing Market Reaches All-Time Highs — Before It Crashes, Dips A...
Is this Houston real estate’s Wile E. Coyote off-the-cliff-but-hasn’t-realized-he’s-gonna-fall-yet moment? Or is a new era dawning, in which out-of-state investors new to this whole “Houston is...
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