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Volume 67, Issue 6 - Money
Nov / Dec 2017
Trapped, A Consequence of Forced Implementations
“Trapped, A Consequence of Forced Implementations” by Munjer Hashim, a former University of Houston architecture student currently working for Sage and Coombe Architects in New York, graphically represents the collision of two hyperobjects: The City of Houston and a piece of Global Warming known as Hurricane Harvey. The numbers were drawn from Reuters, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.
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