Growing greener cities urban sustainability in the twenty-first century /
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
c2008.
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| Series: | City in the twenty-first century book series.
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Growing greener cities |h [electronic resource] : |b urban sustainability in the twenty-first century / |c edited by Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter. |
| 260 | |a Philadelphia : |b University of Pennsylvania Press, |c c2008. | ||
| 300 | |a xii, 392 p., [16] p. of plates : |b ill. (some col.), maps (some col.). | ||
| 490 | 1 | |a The city in the twenty-first century | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 533 | |a Electronic reproduction. |b Palo Alto, Calif. : |c ebrary, |d 2013. |n Available via World Wide Web. |n Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. | ||
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| 700 | 1 | |a Birch, Eugenie Ladner. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Wachter, Susan M. | |
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| 830 | 0 | |a City in the twenty-first century book series. | |
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