An edition of Growing greener cities
(2008)
Growing greener cities
addressing urban environmental issues in the twenty-first century
by Eugenie Ladner Birch and Susan M. Wachter
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"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 color graphs, maps, and photographs, Growing Greener Cities provides a panoramic view of urban sustainability and environmental issues for green-minded city planners, policymakers, and citizens."--Jacket.
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Table of Contents
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, Timothy Beatley, Sarah Michaels, Nancy Goucher, and Beth Fenstermacher
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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