04128nam a22005053i 4500 pucpr 20220607151012.0 m o d | 211129s2008 xx o ||||0 eng d 9780812204094 (electronic bk.) 9780812220377 (MiAaPQ)EBC3441721 (Au-PeEL)EBL3441721 (CaPaEBR)ebr10641556 (CaONFJC)MIL420289 (OCoLC)794702270 pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda CARIBET HT241 .G76 2008 307.76 Growing Greener Cities : Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century / edited by Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 1 online resource (421 pages) rdacontent text txt rdamedia computer c rdacarrier online resource cr 298889 The City in the Twenty-First Century Ser. Includes bibliographical references. Introduction: Urban Greening and the Green City Ideal -- Part I: Greening at Every Scale: Nation to Roof Tops -- Chapter 1. Taking the Initiative: Why Cities Are Greening Now -- Chapter 2. Growing Greener Regions -- Chapter 3. The Inter-Regional Dimension: The Greening of London and the Wider South East -- Chapter 4. Greening Cities: A Public Realm Approach -- Chapter 5. Growing Greener, New York Style -- Chapter 6. Greener Homes, Greener Cities: Expanding Affordable Housing and Strengthening Cities Through Sustainable Residential Development -- Part II: Getting Greening Done -- Chapter 7. Urban Stream Restoration: Recovering Ecological Services in Degraded Watersheds -- Chapter 8. The Role of Citizen Activists in Urban Infrastructure Development -- Chapter 9. Blue-Green Practices: Why They Work and Why They Have Been So Difficult toImplement Through Public Policy -- Chapter 10. The Roots of the Urban Greening Movement -- Chapter 11. Leveraging Media for Social Change -- Chapter 12. Transformation Through Greening -- Chapter 13. Community Development Finance and the Green City -- Chapter 14. Growing Edible Cities -- Part III: Measuring Urban Greening -- Chapter 15. Ecosystem Services and the Green City -- Chapter 16. Metro Nature: Its Functions, Benefits, andValues -- Chapter 17. Green Investment Strategies: How They Matter for Urban Neighborhoods -- Chapter 18. Measuring the Economic Impacts of Greening: The Center for Neighborhood Technology Green Values Calculator -- Chapter 19. What Makes Today's Green City? -- Afterword -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Plates follow Chapter 6. This thoroughly illustrated collection of essays, written by scholars as well as practitioners of urban policy, gives a panoramic view of sustainability and environmental issues for green-minded city planners, policy makers, researchers, and citizens. Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2021. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. Urban ecology (Sociology). City planning -- Environmental aspects. Urban beautification -- Environmental aspects. Electronic books. Birch, Eugénie L. 202269 editor Wachter, Susan M. editor Print version: Birch, Eugenie L. Growing Greener Cities Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,c2008 9780812220377 ProQuest (Firm) The City in the Twenty-First Century Ser. https://login.ezproxy.pucpr.edu/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pucpr-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3441721 Acceso Remoto https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pucpr-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3441721 Acceso en el Campus PUCPR lcc 30 HT241 Electrónico G76 2008 297087 297087 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 69 2020-06-19 GOBI 63.75 0 Electrónico HT241 G76 2008 caribet297087 2021-12-07 00:00:00 1 2020-06-19 30 0 0 lcc 0 0 12 12 45 2022-06-07 0 HT241 .G76 2008 50000003287223 2022-06-07 00:00:00 Ebook c. 1 2022-06-07 7