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Author Tumber, Catherine, author.

Title Small, gritty, and green : the promise of America's smaller industrial cities in a low-carbon world / Catherine Tumber
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiv, 211 pages) : illustrations
Series Urban and industrial environments
Urban and industrial environments.
Contents Introduction : beloved communities, benighted times -- Against "shapeless giantism." -- Megadreams and small city realities : trafficking in transportation planning -- "It takes the whole region to make the city" : 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
Summary How small-to-midsize Rust Belt cities can play a crucial role in a low-carbon, sustainable, and relocalized future
Analysis ENVIRONMENT/General
URBANISM/General
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [141]-193) and index
Notes English
Description based on print version record
Subject 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
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business.
NATURE -- Natural Resources.
SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
Fossil fuels -- Environmental aspects
Land use, Urban -- Environmental aspects
Renewable energy sources -- Technological innovations
Technology -- Economic aspects
Urban ecology (Sociology)
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011011788
ISBN 9780262302708
0262302705
9780262299336
026229933X