CITY PLANNING IN DALLAS AND HOUSTON: The Genesis of Large-Scale Suburban Community Planning and Architecture in Dallas and Houston
In 1924, the powerful Houston oilman, lawyer, city planner, real estate developer, art collector, businessman, and philanthropist William Clifford Hogg (Will Hogg) learned that his brother Michael (Mike Hogg) and his friend Hugh Potter had an option on two hundred acres of suburban property four mil...
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| Zusammenfassung: | In 1924, the powerful Houston oilman, lawyer, city planner, real estate developer, art collector, businessman, and philanthropist William Clifford Hogg (Will Hogg) learned that his brother Michael (Mike Hogg) and his friend Hugh Potter had an option on two hundred acres of suburban property four miles west of downtown.¹ He asked, “Why stop at two hundred acres? Why not buy 1,000 acres? Why not buy out the [River Oaks] country club? Why not make this something really big, something the city can be proud of?”² The eldest son of James Stephen Hogg, the Progressive Era two-term Texas governor (1891–1895), |
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