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2007020942 |
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9780415625562 |
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eng |
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| Classification number |
HT241 B46 |
| Item number |
2013 |
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| Edition number |
307.76 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Benton-Short, Lisa. |
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Cities and nature : |
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by Lisa Benton-Short and John Rennie Short. / |
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Second Edition |
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Oxon : |
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2013. |
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ix, 281 p. |
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ill. ; maps ; |
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25 cm. |
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Index |
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Contents :<br/>List of Figures xii --<br/>List of Tables xv --<br/>List of Boxes xvii --<br/>Preface xix --<br/>Acknowledgments xxi --<br/>1 The city and nature 1 --<br/>The intellectual background 3 --<br/>The city as ecosystem 4 --<br/>Nature and the city 9 --<br/>Urban sustainability 12 --<br/>A new approach 13 --<br/>Organization of the book 15 --<br/>Part I The urban environment in history 19 --<br/>2 The pre industrial city 21 --<br/>The first cities 21 --<br/>Urban design 27 --<br/>Disease and cities 40 --<br/>Cities and pollution controls 50 --<br/>Conclusions 54 --<br/>3 The industrial city 57 --<br/>Pollution in Coketown 58 --<br/>Reforming the industrial city 71 --<br/>The urban public parks movement 80 --<br/>Garden cities 89 --<br/>Part II The contemporary urban context 95 --<br/>4 Global urban trends 97 --<br/>Rapid urban growth 97 --<br/>The rise of big cities 103 --<br/>The development of giant urban regions 111 --<br/>5 The postindustrial city --<br/>Reimagining the city 125 --<br/>Creating the postindustrial urban landscape : the example of waterfront redevelopment 127 --<br/>Cleaning up the toxic environment 131 --<br/>6 The developing city 143 --<br/>Megacity 143 --<br/>The industrial city 146 --<br/>The greening city 153 --<br/>Slum city 155 --<br/>Conclusions 164 --<br/>Part III Urban physical systems 167 --<br/>7 Urban sites 169 --<br/>On the beach 173 --<br/>Cities in the desert 176 --<br/>City on the delta 182 --<br/>Dhaka: another city on a delta 188 --<br/>8 Hazards and disasters 194 --<br/>Environmental hazards 198 --<br/>The city and disaster : a case study of Hurricane Katrina 213 --<br/>Social hazards and vulnerability 218 --<br/>The resilient city 223 --<br/>Conclusion 226 --<br/>9 Urban political ecology 229 --<br/>Cities as circulation of flows 231 --<br/>New urban ecological imaginaries 236 --<br/>Urban footprints 240 --<br/>Natural capital 248 --<br/>Biophysical cycles and social processes 249 --<br/>Cities as biotic communities 251 --<br/>Ecologies of a model city region 254 --<br/>Part IV Urban environmental issues 263 --<br/>Part IV Urban environmental issues --<br/>The environmental revolution : a brief context 265 --<br/>A movement galvanizes 265 --<br/>A global environmental revolution 271 --<br/>Greening cities 227 --<br/>Resistance 279 --<br/>11 Water 281 --<br/>Water in develop cities 281 --<br/>Water in developing cities 306 --<br/>Conclusions 314 --<br/>12 Air --<br/>Air pollution in the US 317 --<br/>Air pollution in developing cities 344 --<br/>Air quality trends in developing cities 344 --<br/>Conclusions 349 --<br/>13 Climate change 351 --<br/>Climate science : the basic facts 351 --<br/>Impacts of climate change 357 --<br/>Responding to climate change : mitigation and adaptation 364 --<br/>Conclusions 378 --<br/>14 Garbage 379 --<br/>Waste trends in the US 379 --<br/>The garbage crisis? 382 --<br/>The environmental hazards of landfills 388 --<br/>A consuming mentality 390 --<br/>Reducing waste 392 --<br/>Incinerators : the solution to garbage? 396 --<br/>Waste in the developing world 401 --<br/>Conclusion 413 --<br/>Part V (Re) aligning urban nature relations 415 --<br/>15 Race, class and environmental justice 417 --<br/>Urban environments of inequality 417 --<br/>Environmental justice 424 --<br/>Urban environments and social difference 429 --<br/>Healthy cities 431 --<br/>Conclusions 434 --<br/>16 Urban sustainability 436 --<br/>Intellectual roots of sustainability 436 --<br/>Defining sustainability 439 --<br/>Theories of sustainability 446 --<br/>Practicing sustainability 449 --<br/>Planning for sustainability 457 --<br/>Implementing sustainability 461 --<br/>Conclusions 480 --<br/>Postscript 483 --<br/>Notes 484 --<br/>Index 517 --<br/> |
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Figures:<br/>1.1 Gold Coast, Queensland Australia 6 --<br/>1.2 Cheonggyecheon, Seoul South Korea 11 --<br/>2.1 Map of Teotihuacán 30 --<br/>2.2 Map of Cape Town 31 --<br/>2.3 Map of Forbidden City 32 --<br/>2.4 Savannah, Georgia in 1734 34 --<br/>2.5 Boboli Gardens highlights the themes of formal garden design of Renaissance Florence 35 --<br/>2.6 Versailles 37 --<br/>2.7 Map of Washington, DC, 1791 39 --<br/>2.8 John Snow's map of cholera 47 --<br/>3.1a Industrial Pittsburgh view of the Point, circa 1900 60 --<br/>3.1b View of the Strip District at 11:00 a.m. in June of 1906 60 --<br/>3.2 Dead horse in the streets of New York City, circa 1910 67 --<br/>3.3 The White Wings, circa 1890s 79 --<br/>3.4 Olmsted's map of Central Park 82 --<br/>3.5 The informal landscape of Central Park 83 --<br/>3.6 Howard’s garden city 89 --<br/>3.7 The garden city of Greenbelt, Maryland featured walking paths between apartment buildings and to the town center 90 --<br/>3.8 Map of Ciudad Jardin Lomas del Palomar 93 --<br/>4.1 Rapid large-scale urbanization in the city of Incheon, South Korea 98 --<br/>4.2 The Kuznets environment curve 102 --<br/>4.3 High rise development in Shanghai, one of the world's biggest and fastest growing cities 110 --<br/>4.4 US and Canadian megapolitan areas 112 --<br/>4.5 Spreading sprawl in Brisbane, Australia 116 --<br/>5.1 Syracuse logo, circa 1848-1987 126 --<br/>5.2 Syracuse logo, 1987-present 127 --<br/>5.3 Construction at London Docklands 128 --<br/>5.4 Residential housing at London Docklands 129 --<br/>5.5 Baltimore’s Inner Harbor 130 --<br/>5.6 Waterfront development in Beijing 130 --<br/>5.7 In Baltimore, developers redesigned a brownfield, the old Proctor and Gamble factory 136 --<br/>5.8 The grayfield suburbs of Australia: Adelaide, South Australia 141 --<br/>6.1 Seoul, one of the world’s megacities 145 --<br/>6.2 A green urban park in the middle of Shanghai, a megacity with environmental problems but also a site of vast improvements in environmental quality 151 --<br/>6.3 Slum housing beside luxury living in Saigon, Vietnam 156 --<br/>6.4 "Flying Toilets" in an open sewer in a Nairobi slum 162 --<br/>6.5 Informal housing on precarious hillside in Roseau, Dominica 163 --<br/>7.1 A Sydney beach 174 --<br/>7.2 Pilgrims in Mecca 177 --<br/>7.3 Las Vegas fountains display the city's fantasy of extravagant disregard for water 180 --<br/>8.1 Earthquake damage in Port au Prince, Haiti 197 --<br/>8.2 Hurricane Ivan, 2004 213 --<br/>8.3 The effects on the ground of Hurricane Ivan 214 --<br/>8.4 Several years after Hurricane Katrina, vast areas of the Lower Ninth Ward are still not recovered and remain vacant 218 --<br/>9.1 Ravenswood power plant in Long Island City in Queens, New York 231 --<br/>9.2 Nighttime traffic in Seoul, South Korea 235 --<br/>9.3 Gantry State Park, New York 238 --<br/>9.4 The Highline in New York City 239 --<br/>9.5 Ecological footprint in London 241 --<br/>9.6 The mosaic of urban ecosystems: suburban district of Rome, Italy 252 --<br/>9.7 Urban transect 1: downtown Seoul, South Korea 256 --<br/>9.8 Urban transect 2: inner city, Queens, New York 257 --<br/>9.9 Urban transect 3: periurban, Anne Arundel County, Maryland 259 --<br/>11.1 Visualizing water supply and water treatment systems 282 --<br/>11.2 Combined sewer systems 288 --<br/>11.3 On the Cincinnati waterfront, residents are reminded that the Ohio River is subject to combined sewer overflows 288 --<br/>11.4 Venice, a city of islands and canals, has never maintained a main sewage system 290 --<br/>11.5 Separate sanitary systems 291 --<br/>11.6 Rain garden in Washington, DC helps capture stormwater run off 305 --<br/>11.7 Beijing Bamboo Park 315 --<br/>12.1 A smog station in Los Angeles 332 --<br/>12.2 Traditional and autorickshaws in Hyderabad, India 338 --<br/>12.3 Indoor air pollution 341 --<br/>12.4 Air pollution in Shanghai 345 --<br/>13.1 Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by percentage volume 352 --<br/>13.2 The greenhouse effect 354 --<br/>13.3 Predicted flooding of Charleston, South Carolina 362 --<br/>13.4 London's Climate Action Plan calls for a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions that exceeds UK targets 376 --<br/>14.1 Municipal solid waste trends, 1960-2010 381 --<br/>14.2 Docklands protest 388 --<br/>14.3 Composition of the US waste stream, 2010 389 --<br/>14.4 The waste management hierarchy 393 --<br/>14.5 Recycling rates since 1960 396 --<br/>14.6 Operations at a typical waste to energy facility, or incinerator 399 --<br/>14.7 Many developing cities like Hanoi have significantly improved garbage and recycling programs in tourist areas and in public spaces, but still struggle to provide waste pick-up for all residential areas 401 --<br/>14.8 Informal trash heap 410 --<br/>14.9 Catadores in Rio's Jardim Gramacho dump 410 --<br/>15.1 Chester, Pennsylvania 418 --<br/>15.2 Sacred site in Alice Springs / Mparntwe 430 --<br/>16.1 Colonial Willamsburg is an example of historic reconstruction, complete with the recreation of historic events by actors in period costumes 457 --<br/>16.2 A power plant gets a new life as mixed use development that includes a Barnes & Noble, a Hard Rock Café and an ESPN Zone 458 --<br/>16.3 Green roof in Vienna 467 --<br/>16.4 The master plan for the former El Toro Marine Base, soon to be the Great Park, in Irvine, California 472 --<br/>16.5 La Rambla is an example of a pedestrian precinct in the historic center of Barcelona 473 --<br/>16.6 Bicycles in Amsterdam 475 --<br/> |
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Tables:<br/>1.1 London's environmental inputs and outputs 5 --<br/>3.1 Urbanization in Manchester, England 59 --<br/>3.2 Industrial reforms and the creation of public utilities 72 --<br/>3.3 Outline of water treatment milestones 75 --<br/>4.1 Percentage urban population, 1950-2050 98 --<br/>4.2 Urban population in billions, 1950-2050 99 --<br/>4.3 Percentage urban population, 1950-2050 103 --<br/>4.4 City growth, 1950-2011: city population (millions) 103 --<br/>4.5 Megacities 2012 104 --<br/>5.1 Characteristics of brownfields 134 --<br/>8.1 Cities and hazards 195 --<br/>8.2 Recent major urban disasters 196 --<br/>9.1 Carbon footprints 244 --<br/>9.2 US metros with the largest and smallest carbon footprints 245 --<br/>10.1 Timeline of environmental revolution in the US 267 --<br/>11.1 Challenges in wastewater treatment 292 --<br/>11.2 Comparing Clean Water Act Priorities, 1972-2012 297 --<br/>12.1 Ten worst ozone-polluted cities, 2011 322 --<br/>12.2 The US EPA's Air Quality Index 325 --<br/>12.3 Toxic air pollutants 327 --<br/>12.4 Ten smokiest cities, particulate matter 2011 334 --<br/>12.5 Annual mean suspended particles (PM10 ug/m3) in selected cities 334 --<br/>12.6 Global Atmospheric Pollution Forum: partnership of international organizations and regional air pollution networks 349 --<br/>13.1 Climate change observations 356 --<br/>13.2 Potential climate impacts 357 --<br/>13.3 Selected climate mitigation efforts 366 --<br/>13.4 Examples of adaptation approaches 370 --<br/>14.1 Sources and types of municipal solid wastes 380 --<br/>14.2 Household hazards in landfills 390 --<br/>14.3 Plastics in the waste stream 392 --<br/>14.4 Source reduction activities 392 --<br/>14.5 Comparisons of solid waste management for selected cities 402 --<br/>16.1 Intellectual contributions on urban sustainable development 440 --<br/>16.2 The Three E’s of sustainability 442 --<br/>16.3 Sprawl vs. Smart Growth 451 --<br/>16.4 Objectives of green housing and green communities 463 --<br/> |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Urban ecology (Sociology) |
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Urbanization |
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286625 |
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Environmental aspects |
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Local |
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Urban pollution. |
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Sustainable development. |
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286638 |
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Local |
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City planning |
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73701 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
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Libro |
| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Classification part |
HT241 |
| Call number prefix |
General |
| Call number suffix |
B46 2013 |