Houston City Map Poster

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Houston map poster

Houston is a city that spreads out rather than up, at least once you leave the cluster of towers downtown. Its street grid runs across flat coastal prairie, crossed by slow bayous and wrapped by freeway loops, and seen from above it takes on a shape that is unmistakably its own. This poster renders Houston in the Classic style, a restrained design approach that lets the city's layout do the talking.

For people who live there, the map tends to work as a quiet record of ordinary routes: the drive to work, the neighborhood where a first apartment was, the way home after a long night out. Houston is a place of many distinct communities, from older inner-city areas to sprawling suburbs, and plenty of people have moved around within it over the years. A street map gives all of those chapters a single frame. For those who have moved away, it can be a reminder of humid evenings, good food from just about every corner of the world, and a city that rarely gets the credit it deserves.

The Classic style suits a range of rooms, from an office or entryway to a living room wall, and sits comfortably alongside other art without competing for attention. It also makes a thoughtful gift for someone who just bought a house in Houston, graduated from school there, or is leaving town and wants something to remember it by. As with all RadMaps prints, it is meant as decorative art for the wall rather than a tool for getting around, a way to keep a city that matters close at hand.

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Location

Texas, United States

Collection

Cityscapes