Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century Birch, Eugénie L. editor Wachter, Susan M. editor text Electronic books. xx 2008 monographic eng 1 online resource (421 pages) 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. 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. edited by Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter. Includes bibliographical references. Urban ecology (Sociology) City planning -- Environmental aspects Urban beautification -- Environmental aspects HT241 .G76 2008 307.76 Birch, Eugenie L. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,c2008 9780812204094 https://login.ezproxy.pucpr.edu/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pucpr-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3441721 https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pucpr-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3441721 https://login.ezproxy.pucpr.edu/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pucpr-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3441721 https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pucpr-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3441721 pucpr 211129 20220607151012.0 eng