Using the core principles of ecology to imagine, design, and create functioning landscapes.
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5 Environmental issues See also: Timeline of World War II. Culture of the United States of America The Astrodome was conceived by Hofheinz as early as 1952 when he and his daughter Dede were rained out once too often at Buffalo Stadium home of Houston's minor league baseball team the Houston Buffs Hofheinz abandoned his interest in the world's first air-conditioned shopping mall the Galleria and set his sights on bringing major league baseball to Houston. South Houston History, Cloverleaf On July 26 2003 the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau started "The Neighborhoods Alive: Houston's Multicultural Tour," a bus tour throughout several neighborhoods in inner Houston the tour's destinations included Downtown Houston the First Ward the Second Ward the Third Ward the Sixth Ward East Downtown and Midtown Two later bookings those for August 23 2003 and September 2003 quickly sold out Therefore the bureau added six more dates on short notice, Nowhere were the wartime effects greater than in Houston which in 1940 was a city of 400,000 population dependent on shipping and oil the war dramatically expanded the city's economic base thanks to massive federal spending Energetic entrepreneurs most notably George Brown James Elkins and James Abercrombie landed hundreds of millions of dollars in federal wartime investment in technologically complex facilities Houston oil companies moved from being refiners and became sophisticated producers of petrochemicals Especially important were synthetic rubber and high octane fuel which retained their importance after the war the war moved the natural gas industry from a minor factor to a major energy source; Houston became a major hub when a local firm purchased the federally-financed Inch pipelines Other major growth industries included steel munitions and shipbuilding.
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Using the core principles of ecology to imagine, design, and create functioning landscapes.