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Autore: | Tumber Catherine |
Titolo: | Small, gritty, and green : the promise of America's smaller industrial cities in a low-carbon world / / Catherine Tumber |
Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | xxxiv, 211 p. : ill |
Disciplina: | 333.770973 |
Soggetto topico: | Urban ecology (Sociology) - United States |
Fossil fuels - Environmental aspects - United States | |
Land use, Urban - Environmental aspects - United States | |
Renewable energy sources - Technological innovations - United States | |
Technology - Economic aspects - United States | |
Soggetto non controllato: | ENVIRONMENT/General |
URBANISM/General | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | How small-to-midsize Rust Belt cities can play a crucial role in a low-carbon, sustainable, and relocalized future. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Small, gritty, and green |
ISBN: | 0-262-29754-X |
1-283-34372-X | |
9786613343727 | |
0-262-30270-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910781413203321 |
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