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Small, gritty, and green [electronic resource] : the promise of America's smaller industrial cities in a low-carbon world / Catherine Tumber.

By: Tumber, Catherine.
Series: Urban and industrial environments: Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012Description: 1 online resource (xxxiv, 211 p.) : ill.ISBN: 9780262302708 (ebk.); 0262302705 (ebk.); 9780262299336 (ebk.); 026229933X (ebk.).Subject(s): 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 | Electronic booksAdditional physical formats: Print version:: Small, gritty, and green.DDC classification: 333.770973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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Main Collection Taylor's Library - Perpetual(TU)
333.770973 (Browse shelf) e-book SLASx,05000,03,CL,PPT

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Description based on print version record.