Small, gritty, and green the promise of America's smaller industrial cities in a low-carbon world /

Main Author: Tumber, Catherine.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012.
Series:Urban and industrial environments
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10517478
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : beloved communties, benighted times
  • Against "shapeless giantism."
  • Mega dreams and small city realities : trafficking in transportation planning
  • 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.