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Energy metropolis : an environmental history of Houston and the Gulf Coast
- Title
- Energy metropolis : an environmental history of Houston and the Gulf Coast / edited by Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt.
- Publication
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2007.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- vii, 344 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- History of the urban environment
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-327) and index.
- Contents
- Energy and environment -- A mixed blessing: energy, economic growth, and Houston's environment / Joseph A. Pratt -- The Houston ship channel and the changing landscape of industrial pollution / Hugh S. Gorman -- "Bad science" : the politics of ozone air pollution in Houston / Robert Fisher -- "The air-conditioning capital of the world" : Houston and climate control / Robert S. Thompson -- Growth of the metropolitan region -- Houston's public sinks : sanitary services from local concerns to regional challenges / Martin V. Melosi -- Superhighway deluxe : Houston's Gulf freeway / Tom Watson McKinney -- Urban sprawl and the piney woods : deforestation in the San Jacinto watershed / Diane C. Bates -- A tale of two Texas cities : Houston, the industrial metropolis, and Galveston, the island getaway / William Barnett -- Environmental activism at the grassroots -- Dumping on Houston's black neighborhoods / Robert D. Bullard -- The gunfighters of Northwood Manor : how history debunks myths of the environmental justice movement -- Elizabeth D. Blum -- "To combine many and varied forces" : the hope of Houston's environmental activism, 1923-1999 / Teresa Tomkins-Walsh -- Voices of discord : the effects of a grassroots environmental movement at the brio superfund site / Kimberly A. Youngblood -- Notes.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-5490
- ISBN
- 9780822943358 (alk. paper)
- 0822943352 (alk. paper)
- 9780822959632 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0822959631 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007006107
- OCLC
- 85162017
- Title
- Energy metropolis : an environmental history of Houston and the Gulf Coast / edited by Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt.
- Imprint
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2007.
- Series
- History of the urban environment
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-327) and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Melosi, Martin V., 1947-Pratt, Joseph A.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-5490