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

• Superior document: History of the urban environment
• TeilnehmendeR: Melosi, Martin V., 1947-; Pratt, Joseph A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : : University of Pittsburgh Press,, [2007]; 2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: History of the urban environment.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (353 pages) :; illustrations.

Table of 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.