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Title:

The humane metropolis : people and nature in the 21st-century city / edited by Rutherford H. Platt.

Publisher:

University of Massachusetts Press in association with Lincoln Institute of Land PolicyCambridge,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

viii, 326 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. + 1 videodisc (DVD : sd., col., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.)

Subject:

Urban ecology--United States--Congresses.
City planning--United States--Congresses.
Greenbelts--United States--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Platt, Rutherford H.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

Notes:

Conference papers. Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Designing a more humane metropolis. Pathways to more humane urban places / Rutherford H. Platt Holly Whyte's journalism of place / Charles E. Little -- The energizer / Ann Louise Strong -- Sowing the seeds / Thomas Balsley -- The wit and wisdom of Holly Whyte / Albert LaFarge -- From city parks to regional green infrastructure. The excellent city park system : what makes it great and how to get there / Peter Harnik -- The role of place attachment in sustaining urban parks / Robert L. Ryan -- Respecting nature's design in metropolitan Portland, Oregon / Michael C. Houck -- Promoting health and fitness through urban design / Anne C. Lusk -- A metropolitan New York biosphere reserve? / William D. Solecki and Cynthia Rosenzweig -- Restoring urban nature : projects and process. Restoring urban ecology : the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area experience / Steven E. Clemants and Steven N. Handel -- Urban watershed management: the Milwaukee River experience / Laurin N. Sievert -- Green futures for industrial brownfields / Christopher A. De Sousa -- Ecological citizenship : the democratic promise of restoration / Andrew Light -- A More humane metropolis for whom? Race, poverty, and the humane metropolis / Carl Anthony -- Fortress America : separate and not equal / Edward J. Blakely -- The "organization man" in the Twenty-first Century : an urbanist view / Deborah E. Popper and Frank J. Popper -- Sustainability programs in the South Bronx / Thalya Parrilla -- Designing a more humane metropolis. The smile index / Andrew G. Wiley-Schwartz -- Zoning incentives to create public spaces : lessons from New York City / Jerold S. Kayden -- Criteria for a greener metropolis / Mary V. Rickel Pelletier -- Building the right shade of green / Colin M. Cathcart -- Green urbanism in European cities / Timothy Beatley -- Pathways to more humane urban places / Rutherford H. Platt

ISBN:

9781558495531 (library cloth)
1558495533 (library cloth)
9781558495548 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1558495541 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2006019435

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)