03551nam a2200385 a 4500 ebr10641556 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 080306s2008 pauabf sb 001 0 eng d 2008010532 9780812220377 (alk. paper) 0812220374 (alk. paper) 9780812204094 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)794702270 HT241 .G76 2008eb 307.76 22 Growing greener cities [electronic resource] : urban sustainability in the twenty-first century / edited by Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008. xii, 392 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.). The city in the twenty-first century Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Urban ecology (Sociology) City planning Environmental aspects. Urban beautification Environmental aspects. Electronic books. local Birch, Eugenie Ladner. Wachter, Susan M. ebrary, Inc. City in the twenty-first century book series. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10641556 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 30842 30842