Growing Greener Cities : : Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century /

Growing Greener Cities : : Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century / / ed. by Eugenie L. Birch, Susan M. Wachter.

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Nineteenth-century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted described his most famous project, the design of New York's Central Park, as "a democratic development of highest significance." Over the years, the significance of green in civic life has grown. In twenty-first-century Amer...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Beatley, Timothy,
Bell, Dale,
Birch, Eugenie L.,
Bonham, J. Blaine,
Bourland, Dana L.,
Brown, Carolyn R.,
Brown, Paul R.,
Daniels, Tom,
Eyring, Bill,
Fenstermacher, Beth,
Garvin, Alexander,
Gillen, Kevin C.,
Goucher, Nancy,
Gutmann, Amy,
Haas, Peter,
Hirsch, Dennis D.,
Karlenzig, Warren,
Kennedy, Julia,
Kooris, David M.,
Michaels, Sarah,
Miller, Charlie,
Nowak, Jeremy,
Peirce, Neal,
Platt, Rutherford H.,
Rubin, Victor,
Smith, Patricia L.,
Thompson, Robin,
Vitiello, Domenic,
Wachter, Susan M.,
Weinberger, Rachel,
Wiland, Harry,
Williams, Stockton,
Wolf, Kathleen L.,
Yaro, Robert D.,
HerausgeberIn:
Birch, Eugenie L.,
Wachter, Susan M.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2008
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:The City in the Twenty-First Century
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Physical Description:1 online resource (424 p.) :; 17 color, 55 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface: Common Ground, Common Good
  • Introduction: Urban Greening and the Green City Ideal
  • Part I. Greening at Every Scale: Nation to Roof Tops
  • 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
  • Part II. Getting Greening Done
  • 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
  • Part III. Measuring Urban Greening
  • 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

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