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Touring the Scenic Phosphogypsum ‘Alps’ of Pasadena

Cite magazine editor Raj Mankad leads readers on a brief photo tour of “one of the most mind-boggling sites in the Houston area.” Hills, in Pasadena! ”Many of the slopes are planted with grass,” he...

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Flying High Over the Baytown Subdivision That Sunk

Here’s some raw footage from a camera-wielding drone flight landscape artist and researcher Steve Rowell piloted earlier this year over portions of the Baytown Nature Center, the Crystal, Scott, and...

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It’s High Sign Season in Houston

Spring has sprung, notes local film curator Peter Lucas. And that means a fresh crop of hand-painted signs has already sprouted: “Each spring — that all-too-brief time when the sun starts to shine in a...

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Hedwig Village Home Listing Photo of the Day: Housing Shortage

9 Falling Leaf Ln. [HAR] … Read More

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Comment of the Day: We Are All Just Temporaries Here

“The church can hold out, but the wave is upon it — no way out. Best of luck and economy to you! I grew up in central NY State. When I visit with a car, I see towns and roads nearly unchanged in 35...

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Aerial Pix of ExxonMobil’s Massive New North Houston Campus Construction...

From a high-flying source come these fascinating close-up aerial views of the massive ExxonMobil campus just north of the intersection of I-45 and the now-building-to-suit Grand Parkway in the...

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Call Houston a Metropolis Inside the Loop, but It’s a Megalopolis Beyond

“In the 1950s just about the entire world abandoned continuous block and street urbanism and switched over to spine-based urbanism. We moved from a metropolitan to a megalopolitan type of urbanism and...

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Houston Home Listing Photo of the Day: Stumped

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Oh Yeah? 19th St. Parklet Promoters Troll Outraged Swamplot Commenters with...

Did the tiny bench-and-planters installation now parked in front of a Heights mattress store strike a nerve for some Swamplot readers? Judging from the comments section for some of Swamplot’s coverage...

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Comment of the Day: What Counts as a Spring in Houston

“The definition of a ‘spring’ can vary a lot, and is used loosely here. In Harris County, where the topography is relatively flat, most of our ‘ponds’ and ‘lakes’ are either borrow pits (excavated to...

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Houston Home Listing Photo of the Day: Houseplant

2406 River Oaks Blvd. [HAR] Photo: Benjamin Hill … Read More

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A Look at Some of the Green That’s Helping Transform the Former Houston...

Swamplot reader Marc Longoria has pics of some of the greenery added recently to the revamped interior of the former Houston Pavilions mall downtown, now known as GreenStreet. The rebranding of the...

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Where’s the Waldo Mansion? Somewhere Behind These Large Oak Trees That Are...

The Waldo Mansion at 201 Westmoreland St. in Westmoreland, best known (well, for its interiors at least) as the terrestrial stomping ground of playboy astronaut Garrett Breedlove, the Jack Nicholson...

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Comment of the Day: That Montrose Look

“If you really look at the building, it resembles a typical three story townhome, shrunk and widened to one level. Even the arched facade mimics the townhome in the background. And let’s face, the...

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Vacant-Lot Vegetable Gardens for Houston Gardens

A little more than halfway through its 2-month-long Indiegogo fundraiser, a Houston company’s plan to grow vegetables on vacant urban lots has chalked up a little more than half of the $35,000 it’s...

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Yes, Gotta Give ’Em Credit for All the Fake Grass in the Back Yard

If you’re wondering what an expanse of fake grass is doing in the back yard of a $1.345 million home around the corner from Antidote, Premium Draught, and the Sonoma Wine Bar in the Heights, the...

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Montgomery Home Listing Photo of the Day: Construction Zone

17601 E. Rabon Chapel Rd. [HAR] … Read More

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Comment of the Day: Sampling Neighborhood Grasses

“Next time you’re out walking your neighborhood, try playing ‘guess the grass.’ You may be surprised to find that many of your neighbors have fake grass and you never noticed until taking off your...

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Proposed Memorial Dr. Tunnels Would Allow Grassy Hookup for North and South...

The landscape architecture firm working on a new master plan for Memorial Park is proposing to put portions of Memorial Dr. in tunnels to allow better connections between the long-separated north and...

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Comment of the Day: Still Waiting To See How Houston Is Going To Turn Out

“I used to groan and grouch about Houston’s ugly sprawl and wished that the city would be more like its culturally and aesthetically superior East and West Coast brethren. But with all the recent...

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