Energy metropolis : an environmental history of Houston and the Gulf Coast /
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| Imprint: | Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2007. |
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| Description: | vii, 344 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | History of the urban environment |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6435231 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1. Energy and Environment
- 1. A Mixed Blessing: Energy, Economic Growth, and Houston's Environment
- 2. The Houston Ship Channel and the Changing Landscape of Industrial Pollution
- 3. "Bad Science": The Politics of Ozone Air Pollution in Houston
- 4. "The Air-Conditioning Capital of the World": Houston and Climate Control
- Part 2. Growth of the Metropolitan Region
- 5. Houston's Public Sinks: Sanitary Services from Local Concerns to Regional Challenges
- 6. Superhighway Deluxe: Houston's Gulf Freeway
- 7. Urban Sprawl and the Piney Woods: Deforestation in the San Jacinto Watershed
- 8. A Tale of Two Texas Cities: Houston, the Industrial Metropolis, and Galveston, the Island Getaway
- Part 3. Environmental Activism at the Grassroots
- 9. Dumping on Houston's Black Neighborhoods
- 10. The Gunfighters of Northwood Manor: How History Debunks Myths of the Environmental Justice Movement
- 11. "To Combine Many and Varied Forces": The Hope of Houston's Environmental Activism, 1923-1999
- 12. Voices of Discord: The Effects of a Grassroots Environmental Movement at the Brio Superfund Site
- Notes
- List of Contributors
- Index