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245	0	0	_aGrowing greener cities _h[electronic resource] : _burban sustainability in the twenty-first century / _cedited by Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter.
260			_aPhiladelphia : _bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, _cc2008.
300			_axii, 392 p., [16] p. of plates : _bill. (some col.), maps (some col.).
490	1		_aThe city in the twenty-first century
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPreface: 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.
533			_aElectronic reproduction. _bPalo Alto, Calif. : _cebrary, _d2013. _nAvailable via World Wide Web. _nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aUrban ecology (Sociology)
650		0	_aCity planning _xEnvironmental aspects.
650		0	_aUrban beautification _xEnvironmental aspects.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
700	1		_aBirch, Eugenie Ladner.
700	1		_aWachter, Susan M.
710	2		_aebrary, Inc.
830		0	_aCity in the twenty-first century book series.
856	4	0	_uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10641556 _zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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