''Cite: The Architecture and Design Magazine of Houston'' is a quarterly

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published by the Rice Design Alliance, a program of the

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''Cite'' was established in 1982. Its topics include

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

urban planning Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, ...

, historical preservation, and

the arts The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both ...

. The magazine was established to provide coverage of architectural criticism that had hitherto been absent in publications. Barrie Scardino, William F. Stern, and Bruce C. Webb, the editors of the book ''

Ephemeral City ''Ephemeral City: Cite Looks at Houston'' is a 2003 nonfiction book edited by Barrie Scardino, William F. Stern and Bruce C. Webb and published by the University of Texas Press. It includes twenty-five essays published in ''Cite'' from 1982 until ...

'', a collection of essays from ''Cite'', stated that the magazine had a "tough love" attitude towards the City of Houston. The writers are/were from Rice University and the

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, and either held formal academic positions or otherwise were considered intellectuals of the architecture sphere. In 2005 Judith K. De Jong of the

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wrote that "That such an initiative has not only lasted, but has also thrived, is testament to the importance of such a publication about Houston, and, by extension, about places ''like'' Houston." - Cited: p. 69. According to De Jong, the fact that the publication caters to ordinary people as well as specialists, its comprehensive coverage of topics, and its "excellent, provocative writing and criticism" contributed to its "longevity". - Cited: p. 70.

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''Ephemeral City'' re-published twenty-five ''Cite'' essays originally published from 1982 to 2000. -

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