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Terms and conditions applyGrowing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century
Eugenie L Birch and Susan M Wachter
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Format: Book
Pages: 416
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Date Published: Nov 2008
Stock Code: 66993
Binding: Paperback
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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 America, not only open space but also other issues of sustainability have become crucial elements in the quality of life in the city and surrounding environment. Confronted by a U.S. population that is more than 70 percent urban, growing concern about global warming, rising energy prices, and unabated globalisation, today's decision makers must find ways to bring urban life into balance with the Earth in order to sustain the natural, economic, and political environment of the modern city.
In Growing Greener Cities, a collection of essays on urban sustainability and environmental issues, scholars and practitioners promote activities that recognise and conserve nature's ability to sustain urban life. These essays demonstrate how partnerships across professional organisations, businesses, advocacy groups, governments, and individuals themselves can bring green solutions to cities from London to Seattle.
Growing Greener Cities offers an overview of the urban green movement, case studies in effective policy implementation, and tools for measuring and managing success. Thoroughly illustrated with colour graphs, maps, and photographs, Growing Greener Cities provides a panoramic view of urban sustainability and environmental issues for green-minded city planners, policy makers, and citizens.
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