Energy metropolis : an environmental history of Houston and the Gulf Coast /
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| Language: | English |
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2007]
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| Series: | History of the urban environment.
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Energy metropolis : |b an environmental history of Houston and the Gulf Coast / |c edited by Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : |b University of Pittsburgh Press, |c [2007] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2007 | |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-327) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 590 | |a Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. | ||
| 651 | 0 | |a Houston (Tex.) |x Environmental conditions |x History. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Gulf Coast (Tex.) |x Environmental conditions |x History. | |
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| 700 | 1 | |a Melosi, Martin V., |d 1947- |e editor. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Pratt, Joseph A., |e editor. | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |t Energy metropolis : an environmental history of Houston and the Gulf Coast. |d Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2007] |h vii, 344 pages ; 24 cm |k History of the urban environment |z 9780822943358 |w (OCoLC)ocm85162017 |w (DLC)10905438 |
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