- Smart Growth America Ranks Houston as 10th Most Sprawling U.S. City with Population of More than 1 Million [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- With 90% of Lots Built Out, Newland Communities To Close Its Eagle Springs Visitor Center [Prime Property]
- New Twin Peaks Opening on I-10 near Kirkwood Across from Elementary School Will Feature-in Beer Garden, Uniformed Police Officers [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
- House of Pies in Upper Kirby Now Reopen After Last Year’s Fire [abc13]
- Lasco Enterprises Looking To Unload Its River Oaks and Kingwood Tasting Room Wine Bars [Food Chronicles]
- Houston First May Absorb Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau in ‘Strategic Realignment’ [Houston Business Journal]
- Armed with Wikipedia Data, Conan O’Brien Sings About Houston Pollution [Culturemap]
- ‘Sunday Streets’ Kicks Off This Sunday with Parts of White Oak Dr., Quitman St. Closed to Car Traffic [Houston Public Media]
- Slideshow: Garden Oaks Home & Garden Tour To Feature Six Homes, Four Gardens in April 27 [Houston Business Journal]
Photo of the remains of the Axis Apartments on West Dallas: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool; previously on Swamplot
Headlines
Sucks for the subcontractor that lost all his scaffolds in that pic.
Tenth most sprawling among cities with a population with more than one million? That’s kind of specific, and really suspicious, since I think that the last U.S. census only named nine cities that actually had a population of more than one million people. In which case, Houston ranks impossibly low.
Don’t rely solely on headlines
http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/documents/measuring-sprawl-2014.pdf
The table (Table 6) actually lists “Most sprawling large metro areas”. “Large metro areas are defined as having a population more than one million.”