Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America's Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World - Couverture rigide

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Tumber, Catherine

 
9780262016698: Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America's Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World
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ISBN 10 : 0262016699 ISBN 13 : 9780262016698
Editeur : The MIT Press, 2011

Synopsis

How small-to-midsize Rust Belt cities can play a crucial role in a low-carbon, sustainable, and relocalized future.

America's once-vibrant small-to-midsize cities—Syracuse, Worcester, Akron, Flint, Rockford, and others—increasingly resemble urban wastelands. Gutted by deindustrialization, outsourcing, and middle-class flight, disproportionately devastated by metro freeway systems that laid waste to the urban fabric and displaced the working poor, small industrial cities seem to be part of America's past, not its future. And yet, Catherine Tumber argues in this provocative book, America's gritty Rust Belt cities could play a central role in a greener, low-carbon, relocalized future.

As we wean ourselves from fossil fuels and realize the environmental costs of suburban sprawl, we will see that small cities offer many assets for sustainable living not shared by their big city or small town counterparts, including population density and nearby, fertile farmland available for new environmentally friendly uses.

Tumber traveled to twenty-five cities in the Northeast and Midwest—from Buffalo to Peoria to Detroit to Rochester—interviewing planners, city officials, and activists, and weaving their stories into this exploration of small-scale urbanism. Smaller cities can be a critical part of a sustainable future and a productive green economy. Small, Gritty, and Green will help us develop the moral and political imagination we need to realize this.

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À propos de l?auteur

Historian and journalist Catherine Tumber is a Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University's School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, a Fellow of the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth's Gateway Cities Innovation Institute, and a former Research Affiliate with the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning's Community Innovators Lab.

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Éditeur
The MIT Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0262016699
ISBN 13 
9780262016698
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780262525312: Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America's Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0262525313 ISBN 13 :  9780262525312
Editeur : MIT Press, 2013
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