Growing greener cities : urban sustainability in the twenty-first century / edited by Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Birch, Eugenie Ladner.

Wachter, Susan M.

Series:

City in the twenty-first century book series

The city in the twenty-first century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban ecology (Sociology).

City planning--Environmental aspects.

City planning.

Urban beautification--Environmental aspects.

Urban beautification.

Physical Description:

xii, 392 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008]

Summary:

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, policy makers, and citizens.

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 ... [et al.]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780812220377

0812220374

OCLC:

213599296