Growing greener cities urban sustainability in the twenty-first century /
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| التنسيق: | الكتروني كتاب الكتروني |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
c2008.
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| سلاسل: | City in the twenty-first century book series.
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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جدول المحتويات:
- Preface: common ground, common good / Amy Gutmann
- Introduction: urban greening and the green city ideal / Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter
- Greening at every scale: nation to roof tops
- Taking the initiative: why cities are greening now / Tom Daniels
- Growing greener regions / Robert D. Yaro and David M. Kooris
- The inter-regional dimension: the greening of London and the wider South East / Robin Thompson
- Greening cities: a public realm approach / Alexander Garvin
- Growing greener, New York style / Rachel Weinberger
- Greener homes, greener cities: expanding affordable housing and strengthening cities through sustainable residential development / Stockton Williams and Dana L. Bourland
- Getting greening done
- Urban stream restoration: recovering ecological services in degraded watersheds / Rutherford H. Platt ... [et al.]
- The role of citizen activists in urban infrastructure development / Paul R. Brown
- Blue-green practices: why they work and why they have been so difficult to implement through public policy / Charlie Miller
- The roots of the urban greening movement / Victor Rubin
- Leveraging media for social change / Harry Wiland and Dale Bell
- Transformation through greening / J. Blaine Bonham, Jr., and Patricia L. Smith
- Community development finance and the green city / Jeremy Nowak
- Growing edible cities / Domenic Vitiello
- Measuring urban greening
- Ecosystem services and the green city / Dennis D. Hirsch
- Metro nature: its functions, benefits, and values / Kathleen L. Wolf
- Green investment strategies: how they matter for urban neighborhoods / Susan M. Wachter, Kevin C. Gillen, and Carolyn R. Brown
- Measuring the economic impacts of greening: the center for neighborhood technology green values calculator / Julia Kennedy, Peter Haas, and Bill Eyring
- What makes today's green city? / Warren Karlenzig
- Afterword / Neal Peirce
- List of contributors.