Environment and Economy Along Houston’s Bayous

Jones, Benjamin

Environment and Economy Along Houston’s Bayous

dc.contributor.author	Jones, Benjamin	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2016-06-10T17:18:51Z	en_US
dc.date.available	2016-06-10T17:18:51Z	en_US
dc.date.issued	2016	en_US
dc.description	Winner of the Friends of Fondren Library Undergraduate Research Awards, 2016.	en_US
dc.description	This paper was originally prepared for Rice Course HIST 201, American Urban History given by Professor Kyle Shelton, Department of History in Fall 2015.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	The bayous have played a key role in the development of Houston since the city’s founding in the early 19th centuries. Houstonians have approached their relationship with the bayous in several different ways. Boosters and industrialists, who transformed Buffalo Bayou into the Houston Ship Channel, viewed the bayous as key pieces of infrastructure to be shaped and utilized in order to optimize Houston’s trading position. Environmentalists, City Beautiful proponents, and others saw the bayous as ideal green spaces. However, all groups laying claim to Houston’s bayous have done so for the express purpose of economic growth. In a city defined by its entrepreneurial spirit, even Houston’s natural features have been put to work	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Jones, Benjamin. "Environment and Economy Along Houston’s Bayous." (2016) Rice University: <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/90479">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/90479</a>.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1911/90479	en_US
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.publisher	Rice University	en_US
dc.rights	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.	en_US
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/	en_US
dc.subject	History	en_US
dc.title	Environment and Economy Along Houston’s Bayous	en_US
dc.type.dcmi	Text	en_US
dc.type.genre	Research paper	en_US