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Concrete jungle : New York City and our last best hope for a sustainable future /

"Cities need healthy chunks of the world's ecosystems to persist if they are to survive; yet cities, like parasites, grow and prosper by local destruction of these very ecosystems. In this absorbing and wide-ranging book, the authors use New York City as a microcosm to explore both the pos...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Eldredge, Niles (Autor), Horenstein, Sidney S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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