Welcome to Paradox City

A first-of-its-kind history of Dallas told through the citys most significant buildings.

With an exceptional blend of architectural history, social history, and critical writing,Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mark Lamster takes readers to the sun-scorched origins of Dallas as a remote outpost on the Texas frontier, then traces the city's development into the dynamic, if imperfect, metropolis we know today.Welcome to Paradox Cityis an illuminating, illustrated look at the often-invisible ways that architecture shapes a city and its culture from its founding, to the present, and onward into the future.