The City In Texas

Author : Andrew M. Busch
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469632650

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City in a Garden by Andrew M. Busch Pdf

The natural beauty of Austin, Texas, has always been central to the city's identity. From the beginning, city leaders, residents, planners, and employers consistently imagined Austin as a natural place, highlighting the region's environmental attributes as they marketed the city and planned for its growth. Yet, as Austin modernized and attracted an educated and skilled labor force, the demand to preserve its natural spaces was used to justify economic and racial segregation. This effort to create and maintain a "city in a garden" perpetuated uneven social and economic power relationships throughout the twentieth century. In telling Austin's story, Andrew M. Busch invites readers to consider the wider implications of environmentally friendly urban development. While Austin's mainstream environmental record is impressive, its minority groups continue to live on the economic, social, and geographic margins of the city. By demonstrating how the city's midcentury modernization and progressive movement sustained racial oppression, restriction, and uneven development in the decades that followed, Busch reveals the darker ramifications of Austin's green growth.

Author : David G. McComb
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292767485

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The City in Texas by David G. McComb Pdf

Texans love the idea of wide-open spaces and, before World War II, the majority of the state’s people did live and work on the land. Between 1940 and 1950, however, the balance shifted from rural to urban, and today 88 percent of Texans live in cities and embrace the amenities of urban culture. The rise of Texas cities is a fascinating story that has not been previously told. Yet it is essential for understanding both the state’s history and its contemporary character. In The City in Texas, acclaimed historian David G. McComb chronicles the evolution of urban Texas from the Spanish Conquest to the present. Writing in lively, sometimes humorous and provocative prose, he describes how commerce and politics were the early engines of city growth, followed by post–Civil War cattle shipping, oil discovery, lumbering, and military needs. McComb emphasizes that the most transformative agent in city development was the railroad. This technology—accompanied by telegraphs that accelerated the spread of information and mechanical clocks that altered concepts of time—revolutionized transportation, enforced corporate organization, dictated town location, organized space and architecture, and influenced thought. McComb also thoroughly explores the post–World War II growth of San Antonio, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, and Houston as incubators for businesses, educational and cultural institutions, and health care centers.

Author : David G. McComb
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292767461

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The City in Texas by David G. McComb Pdf

"This book is the first history of cities in Texas, covering the earliest days of Spanish-Mexican towns, the Republic era to about 1940, and metropolitan Texas to the present. Not only is this book a first for Texas, but there seem to be no equivalent books for any other states, so the author has developed new concepts like 'the first road frontier' and the 'rupture' caused by the railroads. McComb emphasizes how railroads and related innovations such as the telegraph and the clock facilitated in urban development"--Provided by publisher.

Author : United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Harbors
ISBN : OSU:32435010619831

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The Ports of Galveston and Texas City, Texas by United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556033411505

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Shoal Point Container Terminal, Texas City, Galveston County by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joshua Long
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292722415

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Weird City by Joshua Long Pdf

A native Texan who lived and worked in the Austin area for more than twenty years, Joshua Long is Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at Franklin College Switzerland in Lugano, Switzerland. --Book Jacket.

Author : Panache Partners LLC.
Publisher : Panache Partners Llc
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1933415894

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City by Design by Panache Partners LLC. Pdf

A captivating perspective of the fine works of architecture that comprise the Rocky Mountain area, City by Design Denver presents vibrant photographs and insightful editorial about the city's diverse architectural fabric. This rich collection of stunning structures by esteemed, locally based architects will impress both industry professionals and casual readers. It affords a rare glimpse into a variety of exquisite spaces-including some of the city's finest mixed-use, multifamily, healthcare, civic, corporate and hospitality buildings-and introduces the people who brought them to life. (Ed.).

Author : Robert Atkins Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Hydraulic models
ISBN : UOM:39015086516724

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Stability of Seawall, Texas City, Texas by Robert Atkins Jackson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Galveston (Tex.)
ISBN : NWU:35556021514526

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The Ports of Galveston and Texas City, Texas by Anonim Pdf

Author : Texas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1526 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105064286631

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The Laws of Texas 1822-1897 by Texas Pdf

Author : United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Harbors
ISBN : UOM:39015067870298

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Port and Terminal Facilities at the Ports of Galveston and Texas City, Texas, 1941 by United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors Pdf

Author : Texas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Law
ISBN : MINN:31951D02279976D

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Special Laws Passed by the ... Legislature of the State of Texas by Texas Pdf

Author : Albert L. Mitchell
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1531652611

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TEXAS CITY by Albert L. Mitchell Pdf

At 100 years old, Texas City is a relatively young city. It was founded not for its beauty or its climate but for its strategic location on the Gulf of Mexico. It developed into a major port city, and industries sprang up and flourished. From bare acreage, the founders forged a community that would become a hometown to thousands of people. Texas City has seen its highs and lows. The U.S. Air Force experienced its humble beginnings here, for instance. The same port, however, that gave life to the desolate land brought destruction in 1947 in the form of the Texas City explosion. A ship carrying ammonium nitrate blew up, killing almost 600 residents, injuring thousands, and bringing damage to nearly every building in town. Texas City recovered from the explosion and in the following decades, continued to be a place of pride for its citizens. The pages of this book are filled with images dating from the 1950s and 1960s to bring back the feeling of a bygone era in Texas City.

Author : Lacy M. Johnson,Cheryl Beckett
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781477325674

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More City than Water by Lacy M. Johnson,Cheryl Beckett Pdf

2022 Art in Service to the Environment Award, Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter Honorable Mention, 2022 Nonfiction Prize, Writers' League of Texas Writers explore a city’s relationship with chronic catastrophic flooding. Shortly after Hurricane Harvey dumped a record 61 inches of rain on Houston in 2017, celebrated writer and Bayou City resident Lacy M. Johnson began collecting flood stories. Although these stories attested to the infinite variety of experience in America’s most diverse city, they also pointed to a consistent question: What does catastrophic flooding reveal about this city, and what does it obscure? More City than Water brings together essays, conversations, and personal narratives from climate scientists, marine ecologists, housing activists, urban planners, artists, poets, and historians as they reflect on the human geography of a region increasingly defined by flooding. Both a literary and a cartographic anthology, More City than Water features striking maps of Houston’s floodplains, waterways, drainage systems, reservoirs, and inundated neighborhoods. Designed by University of Houston seniors from the Graphic Design program, each map, imaginative and precise, shifts our understanding of the flooding, the public’s relationship to it, and the fraught reality of rebuilding. Evocative and unique, this is an atlas that uncovers the changing nature of living where the waters rise.

Author : Albert L. Mitchell
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 073857970X

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Texas City by Albert L. Mitchell Pdf

At 100 years old, Texas City is a relatively young city. It was founded not for its beauty or its climate but for its strategic location on the Gulf of Mexico. It developed into a major port city, and industries sprang up and flourished. From bare acreage, the founders forged a community that would become a hometown to thousands of people. Texas City has seen its highs and lows. The U.S. Air Force experienced its humble beginnings here, for instance. The same port, however, that gave life to the desolate land brought destruction in 1947 in the form of the Texas City explosion. A ship carrying ammonium nitrate blew up, killing almost 600 residents, injuring thousands, and bringing damage to nearly every building in town. Texas City recovered from the explosion and in the following decades, continued to be a place of pride for its citizens. The pages of this book are filled with images dating from the 1950s and 1960s to bring back the feeling of a bygone era in Texas City.