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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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.