Small, gritty, and green : the promise of America's smaller industrial cities in a low-carbon world /

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How small-to-midsize Rust Belt cities can play a crucial role in a low-carbon, sustainable, and relocalized future.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tumber, Catherine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012.
Colección:Urban and industrial environments.
Temas:
Urban ecology (Sociology) > United States.
Fossil fuels > Environmental aspects > United States.
Land use, Urban > Environmental aspects > United States.
Renewable energy sources > Technological innovations > United States.
Technology > Economic aspects > United States.
Écologie urbaine > États-Unis.
Combustibles fossiles > Aspect de l'environnement > États-Unis.
Utilisation urbaine du sol > Aspect de l'environnement > États-Unis.
Énergies renouvelables > Innovations > États-Unis.
Technologie > Aspect économique > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Fossil fuels > Environmental aspects
Land use, Urban > Environmental aspects
Renewable energy sources > Technological innovations
Technology > Economic aspects
Urban ecology (Sociology)
United States
ENVIRONMENT/General
URBANISM/General
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : beloved communities, benighted times
  • Against "shapeless giantism."
  • Megadreams and small city realities : trafficking in transportation planning
  • "It takes the whole region to make the city" : agriculture on the urban fringe and beyond
  • Framing urban farming
  • Making good : renewables and the revival of smaller industrial cities
  • Roots of knowledge : local economics, urban scale, and schooling for civic renewal.

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