{"id":2494,"date":"2015-10-28T22:37:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T03:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2019-07-30T16:46:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T21:46:41","slug":"houston-texas-the-third-ward-and-the-energy-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/28\/houston-texas-the-third-ward-and-the-energy-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston, Texas, the Third Ward, and the Energy Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I made a short visit to Houston, Texas during the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acsp.org\/conferences\/annual_conference\">American Collegiate Schools of Planning<\/a> conference. When I wasn&#8217;t downtown, I spent the majority of my free time in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Third_Ward,_Houston\">Third Ward<\/a>, one of the city&#8217;s oldest neighborhoods and home to <a href=\"http:\/\/Project Row Houses\">Project Row Houses<\/a>. The city&#8217;s lack of zoning and the neighborhood&#8217;s proximity to the central business district are producing new challenges for the community, which is threatened by residential developments that are physically and socially out of character with the neighborhood. <\/p>\n<p>But a visit to Houston wouldn&#8217;t be complete without a visit to the region&#8217;s many industrial and oil service areas, so I spent an afternoon along the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Houston_Ship_Channel\">Houston Ship Channel<\/a> in cities like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pasadena,_Texas\">Pasadena<\/a> and later stopped by Chevron&#8217;s downtown facility.<\/p>\n<p>The following images are highlights from that visit, although I will slowly post others to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/albums\/72157659806429608\">my Houston set<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Third Ward<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/21779547324\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Walking Through Project Row Houses\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5664\/21779547324_ac2335f116_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"Walking Through Project Row Houses\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/22413126261\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"New Construction, Third Ward\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5781\/22413126261_c8531471e7_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"New Construction, Third Ward\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/22413103071\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Grand Opening\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/766\/22413103071_11f1ba330c_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"Grand Opening\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/21787214234\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Residential Juxtaposition, Third Ward\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/722\/21787214234_528471c5b0_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"Residential Juxtaposition, Third Ward\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/22221973460\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"In Town Homes, Ferrari\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5691\/22221973460_b3531722ab_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"In Town Homes, Ferrari\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Beyond the Third Ward<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/22231678248\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Residential Neighborhood, Valero Houston Refinery\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/672\/22231678248_3469d29960_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"Residential Neighborhood, Valero Houston Refinery\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/22430271271\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Pasadena Gun Center and Shooting Range\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/603\/22430271271_fbfb025b9c_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"Pasadena Gun Center and Shooting Range\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/21798293803\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Oil Storage, Truck\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/704\/21798293803_f1626d299e_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"Oil Storage, Truck\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/22399112806\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Chevron Corporate Office Entrance, Houston, Texas\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5623\/22399112806_4f445ba13e_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"Chevron Corporate Office Entrance, Houston, Texas\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/22376292916\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Aerial Junkyard View\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5690\/22376292916_851f7bf10d_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"Aerial Junkyard View\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I made a short visit to Houston, Texas during the American Collegiate Schools of Planning conference. 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The city&#8217;s lack of zoning and the neighborhood&#8217;s proximity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[353,243,355,56,356,171,198,354,155],"class_list":["post-2494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photograph","tag-houston","tag-industrial","tag-pasadena","tag-photography","tag-project-row-houses","tag-residential","tag-texas","tag-third-ward","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Houston.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pFuNp-Ee","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions\/2525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}