City of Forests, City of Farms : : Sustainability Planning for New York City's Nature / / Lindsay K. Campbell.

City of Forests, City of Farms is a history of recent urban forestry and agriculture policy and programs in New York City. Centered on the 2007 initiative PlaNYC, this account tracks the development of policies that increased sustainability efforts in the city and dedicated more than $400 million do...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (290 p.) :; 12 b&w halftones, 2 maps, 3 charts
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables, Maps, and Illustrations
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • Introduction: JUXTAPOSING URBAN FORESTRY AND AGRICULTURE IN THE PLANYC ERA
  • 1 GREENING NEW YORK CITY
  • 2 CREATING PLANYC
  • 3 CITY OF FORESTS
  • 4 BEYOND PLANTING
  • 5 GROWING IN THE CITY
  • 6 CITY OF FARMS
  • 7. CONSTRUCTING THE "GREENER, GREATER" CITY
  • 8 CITY AS ECOSYSTEM
  • Epilogue: FROM BLOOMBERG TO DE BLASIO AND BEYOND
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index