Asian Civilisations Museum

See also: List of invasive marine fish in the Gulf of Mexico, The Houston City Hall building constructed in 1938-1939 is an example of Works Progress Administration architecture the simply designed structure featured many construction details that have helped to make this building an architectural classic the design on the lobby floor depicts the protective role of government the doors feature historical figures including Thomas Jefferson Julius Caesar and Moses. Above the lobby entrance is a stone sculpture depicting two men taming a wild horse the sculpture meant to symbolize a community coming together to form a government to tame the world around them the plaster cast for this sculpture and twenty-seven casts for friezes around the building were done by Beaumont artist Herring Coe and co-designer Raoul Jassett, Despite the region's high rate of automobile usage attitudes towards transportation among Houstonians indicate a growing preference for walkability a 2017 study by the Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research found that 56% of Harris County residents have a preference for dense housing in a mixed-use walkable setting as opposed to single-family housing in a low-density area a plurality of survey respondents also indicated that traffic congestion was the most significant problem facing the metropolitan area in addition many households in the city of Houston have no car in 2015 8.3 percent of Houston households lacked a car which was virtually unchanged in 2016 (8.1 percent) the national average was 8.7 percent in 2016 Houston averaged 1.59 cars per household in 2016 compared to a national average of 1.8; .

Terminal E used exclusively by United Airlines at George Bush Intercontinental Airport Due to the industrial infrastructure in and around Houston natural disasters like Hurricane Harvey have also led to numerous toxic spills and disasters including the 2017 Arkema plant explosion. Colonization A geomap depicting the income by county in Texas as of 2014 2.1 The Early 1900s. Sam Houston As early as 1837 the Republic made several attempts to negotiate annexation with the United States. Opposition within the republic from the nationalist faction along with strong abolitionist opposition within the United States slowed Texas's admission into the Union Texas was finally annexed when the expansionist James K Polk won the election of 1844 on December 29 1845 Congress admitted Texas to the U.S as a constituent state of the Union.