City Building in the New South: The Growth of Public Services in Houston, Texas, 1830-1910 is a 1983 non-fiction book by Harold L. Platt, published by Temple University Press. It is the second book of the publisher's "Technology and Urban Growth" series, which debuted in 1980. William H. Wilson of North Texas State University (now University of North Texas) wrote that the audience would be narrow, mostly people interested in the fields of the history of Texas and the history of urban areas. Wilson identified the main themes as the increasing international interconnectivity in utilities and how it related to the city's growth, the involvement of politics and urban development in utilities, and how the South continued to have a regional identity and special development even though the United
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| - City Building in the New South: The Growth of Public Services in Houston, Texas, 1830-1910 is a 1983 non-fiction book by Harold L. Platt, published by Temple University Press. It is the second book of the publisher's "Technology and Urban Growth" series, which debuted in 1980. William H. Wilson of North Texas State University (now University of North Texas) wrote that the audience would be narrow, mostly people interested in the fields of the history of Texas and the history of urban areas. Wilson identified the main themes as the increasing international interconnectivity in utilities and how it related to the city's growth, the involvement of politics and urban development in utilities, and how the South continued to have a regional identity and special development even though the United (en)
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| - City Building in the New South: The Growth of Public Services in Houston, Texas, 1830-1910 is a 1983 non-fiction book by Harold L. Platt, published by Temple University Press. It is the second book of the publisher's "Technology and Urban Growth" series, which debuted in 1980. William H. Wilson of North Texas State University (now University of North Texas) wrote that the audience would be narrow, mostly people interested in the fields of the history of Texas and the history of urban areas. Wilson identified the main themes as the increasing international interconnectivity in utilities and how it related to the city's growth, the involvement of politics and urban development in utilities, and how the South continued to have a regional identity and special development even though the United States itself was becoming more intra-connected. Dr. Robert Fisher, a University of Houston associate professor of history, quoted in a document in a U.S. Congressional report, stated that the book "carefully documents" a conflict between those who wanted more social services and those who wanted fewer, with the latter party being victorious and representing wealthy interests. Instead the wealthier interests wished to use infrastructure to get funding from entities in the Northern United States. The pro-social services types wanted equality between citizens. Electrical and waste management services are focuses of this work. Barry J. Kaplan of Houston wrote in the Pacific Historical Review wrote that the secondary conflict was between professionals and non-professionals but "For in the mid-nineteenth century the dividing line between the two was quite tenuous." Carl Abbott of Portland State University wrote that the content is balanced according to the conflict in the political sphere and the activity in the city government. He also wrote that the coverage multiple generations of policy instead of a single one "shows the essential continuity between the ambitions and actions of Houston's commercial-civic elite in the 1840s and 1850s and their program for the metropolis of the twentieth century." Abbott noted that the book uses a different definition of "city planning", referring to the political process, from what is customarily used, regarding specifically land use. (en)
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