Cargando…

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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wachter, Susan M., Birch, Eugenie Ladner
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
Colección:City in the twenty-first century book series.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.