Tumber, Catherine.

Small, gritty, and green the promise of America's smaller industrial cities in a low-carbon world / [electronic resource] : Catherine Tumber. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (xxxiv, 211 p.) : ill. - Urban and industrial environments . - Urban and industrial environments. .

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.

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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 books.

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