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Author:
Tumber, Catherine.
Title:
Small, gritty, and green : the promise of America's smaller industrial cities in a low-carbon world / Catherine Tumber.
Publisher:
MIT Press,
Copyright Date:
c2012
Description:
xxxiv, 211 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Series:
Urban and industrial environments
ISBN:
0262016699 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780262016698 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN:
2011011788
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)
XSPE157 -- Atlantic Public Library (Atlantic)
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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