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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: History of the urban environmentPublisher: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822973249 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Energy metropolis : an environmental history of Houston and the Gulf Coast.DDC classification:
  • 363.7009764/1411 22
LOC classification:
  • GE155.T4 E54 2007eb
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-327) and index.

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.

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