1. immlass: hotelechozulu: fuckyeahtx: sweetlittlelife: houstonunfiltered: Houston, Texas, has been called the “energy capital of the world” due to its role as a major hub of the petroleum and other energy resource industries. The Houston metropolitan area covers almost 2,331,000 hectares (9,000 square miles) along the southeast Texas coastline, with an average elevation of 13 meters (43 feet) above sea level and a population of over 5 million (2006 US Census estimate). The Houston metropolitan area is also noteworthy as being the largest in the United States without formal zoning restrictions on where and how people can build. This freedom has led to a highly diverse pattern of land use at the neighborhood scale; nevertheless, more general spatial patterns of land use can be recognized in remotely sensed data. These general patterns are particularly evident in nighttime photography of the urban area taken by astronauts on board the International Space Station. The image depicts the roughly 100-kilometer (60-mile) east-west extent of the Houston metropolitan area. Houston proper is at image center, indicated by a “bull’s-eye” of elliptical white- to orange-lighted beltways and brightly lit white freeways radiating outwards from the central downtown area. Suburban and primarily residential urban areas are indicated by both reddish-brown and gray-green lighted regions, which indicate a higher proportion of tree cover and lower light density. Petroleum refineries along the Houston Ship Channel are identified by densely lit areas of golden yellow light. Rural and undeveloped land rings the metropolitan area, and Galveston Bay to the southeast (image lower right) provides access to the Gulf of Mexico. Both types of non-urban surface appear dark in the image.  (via) This is my hometown all right. Light pollution out the yin yang. I never realized that Houston looks like a (highly conceptual) killer macrophage eating the sea. Or Angry Pac Man.

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    Houston, Texas, has been called the “energy capital of the world” due to its role as a major hub of the petroleum and other energy resource industries. The Houston metropolitan area covers almost 2,331,000 hectares (9,000 square miles) along the southeast Texas coastline, with an average elevation of 13 meters (43 feet) above sea level and a population of over 5 million (2006 US Census estimate).

    The Houston metropolitan area is also noteworthy as being the largest in the United States without formal zoning restrictions on where and how people can build. This freedom has led to a highly diverse pattern of land use at the neighborhood scale; nevertheless, more general spatial patterns of land use can be recognized in remotely sensed data. These general patterns are particularly evident in nighttime photography of the urban area taken by astronauts on board the International Space Station.

    The image depicts the roughly 100-kilometer (60-mile) east-west extent of the Houston metropolitan area. Houston proper is at image center, indicated by a “bull’s-eye” of elliptical white- to orange-lighted beltways and brightly lit white freeways radiating outwards from the central downtown area. Suburban and primarily residential urban areas are indicated by both reddish-brown and gray-green lighted regions, which indicate a higher proportion of tree cover and lower light density.

    Petroleum refineries along the Houston Ship Channel are identified by densely lit areas of golden yellow light. Rural and undeveloped land rings the metropolitan area, and Galveston Bay to the southeast (image lower right) provides access to the Gulf of Mexico. Both types of non-urban surface appear dark in the image.

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    This is my hometown all right. Light pollution out the yin yang.

    I never realized that Houston looks like a (highly conceptual) killer macrophage eating the sea. Or Angry Pac Man.

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  1. dotcotton reblogged this from houstonunfiltered
  2. 2ndopinion reblogged this from fuckyeahtx and added:
    -2nd opinion- Houston is wonderful, it gets a bad rap. why? is it the humidity? the heat? i’m not too sure, but I feel...
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  5. blackbutshining reblogged this from heatherpattern and added:
    very generous way of describing unregulated sprawl.
  6. brooklet14 reblogged this from heatherpattern and added:
    also noteworthy as being the largest in the United States without formal zoning restrictions on where and how people can...
  7. heatherpattern reblogged this from immlass and added:
    I never realized that Houston looks like a (highly conceptual) killer macrophage eating the sea. Or Angry Pac Man.
  8. immlass reblogged this from heatherpattern and added:
    This is my hometown all right. Light pollution out the yin yang.
  9. jasonsmithtx reblogged this from houstonunfiltered and added:
    I grew up in Houston, but I always forget how massive it. Everytime I have to go home, or drive through it for work I...
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  13. bumpcrud reblogged this from miss4n6tx and added:
    I totally see Darth Vader in the lower center of the pattern of lights.
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