Energy metropolis : : an environmental history of Houston and the Gulf Coast / / edited by Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt.

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Superior document:History of the urban environment
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Place / Publishing House:Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : : University of Pittsburgh Press,, [2007]
2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:History of the urban environment.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (353 pages) :; illustrations.
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490 1 |a History of the urban environment 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-327) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
588 |a Description based on print version record. 
590 |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
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