Description
More than 70 percent of Americans live in urban areas today, making it more important than ever to find ways to make urban life sustainable.
In this collection of essays, scholars and practitioners examine ideas on greening cities that go beyond parks to infrastructure, transportation, and urban agriculture. They show how partnerships between professional organizations, businesses, advocacy groups, and governments have implemented these ideas in cities from London to Seattle.
Growing Greener Cities offers an overview of the urban green movement, case studies in effective policy implementation, and tools for measuring and managing success. Illustrated with graphs, maps, and photographs, it provides a panoramic view of urban sustainability and environmental issues for green-minded city planners, policy makers, and citizens.
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Preface: Common Ground, Common Good
Amy Gutman
Introduction: Urban Greening and the Green City Ideal
Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter
Part I. Greening at Every Scale: Nation to Roof Tops
1. Taking the Initiative: Why Cities Are Greening Now
Tom Daniels
2. Growing Greener Regions
Robert D. Yaro and David M. Kooris
3. The Inter-Regional Dimension: The Greening of London and the Wider South East
Robin Thompson
4. Greening Cities: A Public Realm Approach
Alexander Garvin
5. Growing Greener, New York Style
Rachel Weinberger
6. Greener Homes, Greener Cities: Expanding Affordable Housing and Strengthening Cities Through Sustainable Residential Development
Stockton Williams and Dana L. Bourland
Part II: Getting Greening Done
7. Urban Stream Restoration: Recovering Ecological Services in Degraded Watersheds
Rutherford H. Platt, Timothy Beatley, Sarah Michaels, Nancy Goucher, and Beth Fenstermacher
8. The Role of Citizen Activists in Urban Infrastructure Development
Paul R. Brown
9. Blue-Green Practices: Why They Work and Why They Have Been So Difficult to Implement Through Public Policy
Charlie Miller
10. The Roots of the Urban Greening Movement
Victor Rubin
11. Leveraging Media for Social Change
Harry Wiland and Dale Bell
12. Transformation Through Greening
J. Blaine Bonham, Jr. and Patricia L. Smith
13. Community Development Finance and the Green City
Jeremy Nowak
14. Growing Edible Cities
Domenic Vitiello
Part III: Measuring Urban Greening
15. Ecosystem Services and the Green City
Dennis D. Hirsch
16. Metro Nature: Its Functions, Benefits, and Values
Kathleen L. Wolf
17. Green Investment Strategies: How They Matter for Urban Neighborhoods
Susan M. Wachter, Kevin C. Gillen, and Carolyn R. Brown
18. Measuring the Economic Impacts of Greening: The Center for Neighborhood Technology Green Values Calculator
Julia Kennedy, Peter Haas, and Bill Eyring
19. What Makes Today's Green City?
Warren Karlenzig
Afterword
Neal Peirce
Notes
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