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City in a Garden

Author : Andrew M. Busch
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469632659
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book City in a Garden written by Andrew M. Busch and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The City in Texas

Author : David G. McComb
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292767463
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The City in Texas written by David G. McComb and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

City by Design

Author : Panache Partners LLC.
Publisher : Panache Partners Llc
ISBN 13 : 9781933415895
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book City by Design written by Panache Partners LLC. and published by Panache Partners Llc. This book was released on 2010 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.).

To Wear a City's Crown

Author : Kenneth W. Wheeler
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book To Wear a City's Crown written by Kenneth W. Wheeler and published by Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Focuses on Houston, Galveston, Austin, and San Antonio..." Dust jacket.

The City in Texas

Author : David G. McComb
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029276748X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The City in Texas written by David G. McComb and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Weird City

Author : Joshua Long
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292722419
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Weird City written by Joshua Long and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Texas Place Names

Author : Edward Callary
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477320660
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Texas Place Names written by Edward Callary and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] linguist . . . takes readers on a tour across the state, using names and language to tell its history.” ―Alcalde Was Gasoline, Texas, named in honor of a gas station? Nope, but the name does honor the town’s original claim to fame: a gasoline-powered cotton gin. Is Paris, Texas, a reference to Paris, France? Yes: Thomas Poteet, who donated land for the town site, thought it would be an improvement over “Pin Hook,” the original name of the Lamar County seat. Ding Dong’s story has a nice ring to it; the name was derived from two store owners named Bell, who lived in Bell County, of course. Tracing the turning points, fascinating characters, and cultural crossroads that shaped Texas history, Texas Place Names provides the colorful stories behind these and more than three thousand other county, city, and community names. Drawing on in-depth research to present the facts behind the folklore, linguist Edward Callary also clarifies pronunciations (it’s NAY-chis for Neches, referring to a Caddoan people whose name was attached to the Neches River during a Spanish expedition). A great resource for road trippers and historians alike, Texas Place Names alphabetically charts centuries of humanity through the enduring words (and, occasionally, the fateful spelling gaffes) left behind by men and women from all walks of life. “[A] quite useful book.” ―Austin American-Statesman

Where Texas Meets the Sea

Author : Alan Lessoff
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477312242
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Where Texas Meets the Sea written by Alan Lessoff and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrating how the growth of a midsized city can illuminate urban development issues across an entire region, this exemplary history of Corpus Christi explores how competing regional and cosmopolitan influences have shaped this thriving port and leisur

Memories of Texas Towns and Cities

Author : Dave Oliphant
Publisher : Host Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780924047190
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Memories of Texas Towns and Cities written by Dave Oliphant and published by Host Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Renowned American poet Dave Oliphant celebrates his home state in this unique collection of poetry. Oliphant consciously began this series in the autumn of 1974 and finished it twenty-five years later in the fall of 1999. Containing thirty sections, each devoted to a different town, MEMORIES OF TEXAS TOWNS & CITIES brings together a wide ranging picture of Texas through the places, people, and poetry one man remembers and celebrates. Also featuring glorious full color illustrations by Mary Lou Williams.

TEXAS CITY

Author : Albert L. Mitchell
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781531652616
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book TEXAS CITY written by Albert L. Mitchell and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

More City than Water

Author : Lacy M. Johnson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477325670
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book More City than Water written by Lacy M. Johnson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Living Waters of Texas

Author : Ken Kramer
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603443126
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Living Waters of Texas written by Ken Kramer and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ten impassioned essays, veteran Texas environmental advocates and conservation professionals step outside their roles as lawyers, lobbyists, administrators, consultants, and researchers to write about water. Their personal stories of what the springs, rivers, bottomlands, bayous, marshes, estuaries, bays, lakes, and reservoirs mean to them and to our state come alive in the landscape photography of Charles Kruvand. Allied with the Texas Living Waters Project (a joint education and policy initiative of the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Environmental Defense Fund, among others), editor Ken Kramer joins his fellow activists in a call to keep rivers flowing, to protect wildlife habitat, and to save tax dollars by using water efficiently and sustainability. INSIDE THIS BOOK:Introduction: the Living Waters of Texas—Ken KramerWhere the First Raindrop Falls—David K. LangfordSpringing to Life: Keeping the Waters Flowing—Dianne WassenichHooked on Rivers—Myron J. HessFalling in Love with Bottomlands: Waters and Forests of East Texas—Janice BezansonOn the Banks of the Bayous: Preserving Nature in an Urban Environment—Mary Ellen WhitworthA Taste of the Marsh—Susan Raleigh KaderkaBays and Estuaries of Texas: An Ephemeral Treasure?—Ben F. Vaughan IIIRio Grande: Fragile Lifeline in the Desert—Mary E. KellyLeaving a Water Legacy for Texas—Ann Thomas HamiltonTexas Water Politics: Forty Years of Going with the Flow—Ken Kramer

Texas Home Rule Charters

Author : Terrell Blodgett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Texas Home Rule Charters written by Terrell Blodgett and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Voice of the City

Author : O. Henry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Voice of the City written by O. Henry and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ports of Galveston and Texas City, Texas

Author : United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Ports of Galveston and Texas City, Texas written by United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shoal Point Container Terminal, Texas City, Galveston County

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Shoal Point Container Terminal, Texas City, Galveston County written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women and the Creation of Urban Life

Author : Elizabeth York Enstam
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890967997
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Women and the Creation of Urban Life written by Elizabeth York Enstam and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those individuals remembered as the "founders" of cities were men, but as Elizabeth York Enstam shows, it was women who played a major role in creating the definitive forms of urban life we know today.