 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.