Growing greener cities : urban sustainability in the twenty-first century /
This thoroughly illustrated collection of essays, written by scholars as well as practitioners of urban policy, gives a panoramic view of sustainability and environmental issues for green-minded city planners, policy makers, researchers, and citizens.
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
Publication Dates: |
[2008] ©2008 |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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The city in the twenty-first century
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http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812204094 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9780812204094.jpg |
Summary: |
This thoroughly illustrated collection of essays, written by scholars as well as practitioners of urban policy, gives a panoramic view of sustainability and environmental issues for green-minded city planners, policy makers, researchers, and citizens. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (424 pages) : illustrations. |
Bibliography: | 17 color, 55 b/w illus. |
ISBN: | 9780812204094 |
Index Number: | HT241 |
CLC: | C912.81 |
Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: Common Ground, Common Good / Introduction: Urban Greening and the Green City Ideal / Chapter 1. Taking the Initiative: Why Cities Are Greening Now / Chapter 2. Growing Greener Regions / Chapter 3. The Inter-Regional Dimension: The Greening of London and the Wider South East / Chapter 4. Greening Cities: A Public Realm Approach / Chapter 5. Growing Greener, New York Style / Chapter 6. Greener Homes, Greener Cities: Expanding Affordable Housing and Strengthening Cities Through Sustainable Residential Development / Chapter 7. Urban Stream Restoration: Recovering Ecological Services in Degraded Watersheds / Chapter 8. The Role of Citizen Activists in Urban Infrastructure Development / Chapter 9. Blue-Green Practices: Why They Work and Why They Have Been So Difficult to Implement Through Public Policy / Chapter 10. The Roots of the Urban Greening Movement / Chapter 11. Leveraging Media for Social Change / Chapter 12. Transformation Through Greening / Chapter 13. Community Development Finance and the Green City / Chapter 14. Growing Edible Cities / Chapter 15. Ecosystem Services and the Green City / Chapter 16. Metro Nature: Its Functions, Benefits, and Values / Chapter 17. Green Investment Strategies: How They Matter for Urban Neighborhoods / Chapter 18. Measuring the Economic Impacts of Greening: The Center for Neighborhood Technology Green Values Calculator / Chapter 19 What Makes Today s Green City? / Afterword / Notes -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments. |