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Small, gritty, and green : the promise of America's smaller industrial cities in a low-carbon world / Catherine Tumber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tumber, Catherine, author.
- Series:
- Urban and industrial environments.
- Urban and industrial environments
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban ecology (Sociology)--United States.
- Urban ecology (Sociology).
- Fossil fuels--Environmental aspects--United States.
- Fossil fuels.
- Land use, Urban--Environmental aspects--United States.
- Land use, Urban.
- Renewable energy sources--Technological innovations--United States.
- Renewable energy sources.
- Technology--Economic aspects--United States.
- Technology.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiv, 211 p. : ill.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How small-to-midsize Rust Belt cities can play a crucial role in a low-carbon, sustainable, and relocalized future.
- Contents:
- Introduction : beloved communties, benighted times
- Against "shapeless giantism."
- Mega dreams and small city realities : trafficking in transportation planning
- Agriculture on the urban fringe and beyond
- Framing urban farming
- Making good : renewables and the revival of smaller industrial cities
- Roots of knowledge : local economics, urban scale, and schooling for civic renewal.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-29754-X
- 1-283-34372-X
- 9786613343727
- 0-262-30270-5
- OCLC:
- 767670272
- Publisher Number:
- 9786613343727
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