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SUMMARY:The Largest Air-Conditioned Room in the World: Houston and the His
 tory of Climate Change - Jonathan Levy (Sciences Po)
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DESCRIPTION:This talk draws from a book-in-progress that aspires to write 
 the history of climate change in the late twentieth-century from the persp
 ective of the history of a city: Houston\, Texas. Houston has long been th
 e corporate headquarters of the global oil economy. Because of its unique 
 urban form\, dominated by sprawl\, automobile use\, and climate control th
 rough air-conditioning\, Houston has the most energy-intensive form of urb
 an life in the world. This talk will draw from a chapter of the book that 
 details the rise of air-conditioning in the city\, as well as its entangle
 ment with the histories of real estate and civil rights. It focuses upon t
 he construction of the Astrodome (1965)\, when it was built the "largest a
 ir-conditioned room in the world." 
LOCATION:Lightfoot Room - St John's College
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