Program

Research Programs: Humanities, Science, and Technology

Period of Performance

9/1/1988 - 12/31/1992

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$215,065.00 (approved)
$200,834.04 (awarded)


The Consequences of Growth: Technology, Environment, and the City-Building Process, 1840-1980

FAIN: RH-20849-88

University of Houston (Houston, TX 77204-3067)
Martin V. Melosi (Project Director: October 1987 to September 1993)

To support a study of urban growth in the United States from 1840 to 1980 that will focus on the environmental consequences and the political, legal, and civic responses to problems associated with the growth of cities.