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

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

ISBN-10: 0262525313

ISBN-13: 9780262525312

Edition: 2011

Authors: Catherine Tumber

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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 thatlaid waste to the urban fabric and displaced the working poor, small industrial cities seem to bepart 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, relocalizedfuture.As we wean ourselves from fossil fuels and realize the environmental costsof suburban sprawl, we will see that small cities…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/13/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.06" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


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


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index


Series List