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

摘要

The concept of this book is quite an important one: to use Houston as an example of the environmental effects of not only the consumption of fossil fuels, as many previous works on urban growth and suburban sprawl have done, but also of the production of those fuels. As the centre of US petroleum exploration and production, first directly through extraction and later through refining and associated service-sector industries, Houston is an important case study. That said, this book suffers from the common criticism of an edited volume: the chapters are of uneven quality and are not tied together in a meaningful way.