| Description |
1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
History of the urban environment |
|
History of the urban environment.
|
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-327) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
|
Print version record |
|
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
|
|
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
|
|
Ecology
|
| SUBJECT |
Houston (Tex.) -- Environmental conditions -- History
|
|
Gulf Coast (Tex.) -- Environmental conditions -- History
|
| Subject |
Texas -- Gulf Coast
|
|
Texas -- Houston
|
| Genre/Form |
History
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Melosi, Martin V., 1947- editor.
|
|
Pratt, Joseph A., editor
|
| ISBN |
9780822973249 |
|
0822973243 |
|
