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Emerald Cities : Urban Sustainability and Economic Development

ISBN: 9780195382761 | 0195382765
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/18/2010

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Here is a refreshing look at how American cities are leading the way toward greener, cleaner, and more sustainable forms of economic development. In Emerald Cities, Joan Fitzgerald shows how in the absence of a comprehensive national policy, cities like Chicago, New York, Portland, San Francisco, and Seattle have taken the lead in addressing the interrelated environmental problems of global warming, pollution, energy dependence, and social justice. Cities are major sources of pollution but because of their population density, reliance on public... MORE
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Acknowledgmentsp. ix
Sustainability as Economic Developmentp. 1
Cities and the Green Economyp. 11
Renewable Citiesp. 31
Building the Energy-Efficient Cityp. 78
Is There Treasure in Our Trash?p. 116
Creating a Green Transportation Economyp. 145
Only Connectp. 176
Notesp. 185
Referencesp. 213
Indexp. 239
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Joan Fitzgerald is the Director of the Law, Policy and Society Program at Northeastern University and the author of Moving Up in the New Economy: Career Ladders for U.S. Workers and Economic Revitalization: Cases and Strategies for City and Suburb. She lives in Boston.


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