Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First CenturyEugenie Ladner Birch, Susan Wachter University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008 - 392 sider Nineteenth-century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted described his most famous project, the design of New York's Central Park, as "a democratic development of highest significance." Over the years, the significance of green in civic life has grown. In twenty-first-century America, not only open space but also other issues of sustainability—such as potable water and carbon footprints—have become crucial elements in the quality of life in the city and surrounding environment. Confronted by a U.S. population that is more than 70 percent urban, growing concern about global warming, rising energy prices, and unabated globalization, today's decision makers must find ways to bring urban life into balance with the Earth in order to sustain the natural, economic, and political environment of the modern city. |
Indhold
Why Cities Are Greening Now | 11 |
Growing Greener Regions | 28 |
The Greening of London and | 46 |
A Public Realm Approach | 60 |
Growing Greener New York Style | 84 |
Expanding Affordable Housing | 106 |
Recovering Ecological Services | 127 |
The Role of Citizen Activists in Urban Infrastructure | 152 |
Transformation Through Greening | 227 |
Community Development Finance and the Green City | 244 |
Growing Edible Cities | 259 |
Ecosystem Services and the Green City | 281 |
Its Functions Benefits and Values | 294 |
How They Matter for Urban | 316 |
What Makes Todays Green City? | 346 |
Afterword | 364 |
Why They Work and Why They Have Been | 170 |
The Roots of the Urban Greening Movement | 187 |
Leveraging Media for Social Change | 207 |
List of Contributors | 381 |