Urban Living Legend -- Who Me?
I’ve been called a lot of names over the years in my work fighting for environmental justice, some of which I care not to repeat. Just recently, I was interviewed by Katti Gray for “Urban Living Legend” article in Diverse Issues in Higher Education on my return to Texas Southern University and Houston where I began my teaching, research, policy and community engagement work some three decades ago. In all, I have written seventeen books on a range of subject areas. To view links to a few of my books on cities, metro regions, smart growth, suburban sprawl, transportation equity, and urban apartheid. Click HERE for complete list of books.
Black History Month: "Invisible Houston" Revisited Three Decades Later
As part of Black History Month this year, the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University kicks off Invisible Houston Revisited, an initiative that follows up Invisible Houston: The Black Experience in Boom and Bust, a book I wrote nearly three decades ago that critically examined the major demographic, social, economic, and political factors that helped make Houston the "golden buckle" of the Sunbelt.
