TY  - BOOK
AU  - Birch, Eugénie L.
AU  - Wachter,Susan M.
TI  - Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century 
SN  - 9780812204094
AV  - HT241  .G76 2008
U1  - 307.76 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Urban ecology (Sociology)
KW  - City planning -- Environmental aspects
KW  - Urban beautification -- Environmental aspects
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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