Energy Metropolis - An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast

A comprehensive history of the development of Houston, examining the factors that have facilitated unprecedented growth--and the environmental cost of that development. Examines the steps Houston has taken to overcome laissez-faire politics, indiscriminate expansion, and infrastructural overload. An analysis of the environmental consequences of large-scale energy production and unchecked growth.

About the author

Martin V. Melosi is Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor of History and director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast; Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment; The Sanitary City: Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the Present; and Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment.

Summary

A comprehensive history of the development of Houston, examining the factors that have facilitated unprecedented growth - and the environmental cost of that development.

Product details

• Assisted by: Martin Melosi (Editor), Martin V Melosi (Editor), Martin V. Melosi (Editor), Joseph Pratt (Editor), Joseph A Pratt (Editor), Joseph A. Pratt (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.06.2007
• EAN: 9780822959632
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-5963-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 237 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 507 g
• Series: History of the Urban Environme; History of the Urban Environment; History of the Urban Environment; History of the Urban Environme; Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous