Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to another installment in the "Houston Is Walkable!" series.
This was about 3pm on May 30, more recent than the last one and it's much warmer outside. That's not why this is short - I forgot the sunscreen and I didn't want a sunburn, and as it turned out my battery didn't have much in it anyway. I can deal with the heat, but I can't take pictures without batteries and sunburn sucks.
This was totally on a whim as I just happened to be in the area with the camera with some time to kill, but it turns out this spot well demonstrates how Houston gets by without conventional zoning laws.
This is the intersection of Kipling and Huldy, just east of S. Shepherd and north of W. Alabama. This is either on the edge of Montrose or on the edge of Upper Kirby depending on who you ask, but the Upper Kirby street signs begin on Shepherd and westward.
Businesses and old four-plexes sharing blocks.
People living here don't have it all bad - they don't have to drive to the grocery store if they don't want to. There's a Randall's to the right (north) of Harold St. as seen here. And it actually doesn't suck like most Randall's do nowadays.
Relatively quiet residential streets just off one of the busiest Inner Loop thoroughfares.
Let's take a walk down Shepherd...
And then we come up on Sul Ross where it can get hard to tell homes from businesses. I surmise some could serve as both. Mixed use indeed.
Then it goes to small apartment complexes before going to...
All of this is on the same block of Sul Ross.
Heading back towards Alabama again...
And back toward Shepherd...
It's interesting that someone would open a Chicken 'N' Eggroll restaurant, keep it open for only seven days, then close it. The owner could have just opened a stand at the rodeo or something. At least it makes for more parking.
And that's it. Battery's dead, but not anymore. Until next time though...have fun and be careful.
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How Houston gets by without zoning. (photos)
Surely someone told you or you saw for yourself at some point that Houston was not Boston or San Francisco, but a city built around the car?? I see some people walking around in the pictures, but no, not like you see in NYC by a long shot. Most of the people are in the houses, in the cars, and in the shops pictured. And I'm fairly sure some of those people at the icehouse walked from their cars to the counter to the table to sit down with their beer. 
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