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1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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History of the urban environment
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History of the urban environment.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-327) and index. |
| 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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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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 |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Houston (Tex.) -- Environmental conditions -- History.
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Gulf Coast (Tex.) -- Environmental conditions -- History.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Melosi, Martin V., 1947- editor.
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Pratt, Joseph A., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Energy metropolis : an environmental history of Houston and the Gulf Coast. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2007] vii, 344 pages ; 24 cm History of the urban environment 9780822943358 (OCoLC)85162017 (DLC) 10905438 |
| ISBN |
9780822973249 electronic book |
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0822973243 electronic book |
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9780822943358 (alkaline paper) |
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0822943352 (alkaline paper) |
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9780822959632 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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0822959631 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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