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Shifting Gears - Toward A New Way Of Thinking About Transportation

by Susan Handy

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 An expertly woven history and critique of the ideas shaping transportation in the United States.Excruciating traffic jams. Struggling transit agencies. An epidemic of pedestrian fatalities. It is clear that transportation is not working in the United States and that we need to rethink our approach. In Shifting Gears, Susan Handy provides an in-depth history of the ideas embedded in American transportation policy and the emergence of new ways of thinking that could give us better transportation options. Weaving in bits of her own personal narrative, Handy gives readers a deeper and clearer understanding of our transportation system and the roots of its successes and failures.Handy covers the myriad costs of car ownership, the futility of expanding highways, and the misplaced faith in technological innovation. She offers new ideas and strategies that can improve the health of our car-centric transportation system—most crucially, the idea that communities across the country must create an array of choices for daily travel. Shifting Gears asserts that a diverse transportation ecosystem is essential for creating more just, sustainable communities, but getting there will take a dramatic shift in how we think about transportation.
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Co-Cities - Innovative Transitions Toward Just And Self-Sustaining Communities

by Christian Iaione e Sheila R. Foster

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 A new model of urban governance, mapping the route to a more equitable management of a city''s infrastructure and services.The majority of the world''s inhabitants live in cities, but even with the vast wealth and resources these cities generate, their most vulnerable populations live without adequate or affordable housing, safe water, healthy food, and other essentials. And yet, cities also often harbor the solutions to the inequalities they create, as this book makes clear. With examples drawn from cities worldwide, Co-Cities outlines practices, laws, and policies that are presently fostering innovation in the provision of urban services, spurring collaborative economies as a driver of local sustainable development, and promoting inclusive and equitable regeneration of blighted urban areas.Identifying core elements of these diverse efforts, Sheila R. Foster and Christian Iaione develop a framework for understanding how certain initiatives position local communities as key actors in the production, delivery, and management of urban assets or local resources. Within this framework, they explain the forms such initiatives increasingly take, like community land trusts, new kinds of co-housing, neighborhood cooperatives, community-shared broadband and energy networks, and new local offices focused on citizen science and civic imagination.The "Co-City" framework is uniquely rooted in the authors'' own decades-long research and first-hand experience working in cities around the world. Foster and Iaione offer their observations as "design principles"—adaptable to local context—to help guide further experimentation in building just and self-sustaining urban communities.
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Just Housing - The Moral Foundations Of American Housing Policy

by Casey J. Dawkins

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 A new conception of housing justice grounded in moral principles that appeal to the home''s special connection to American life.In response to the twin crises of homelessness and housing insecurity, an emerging "housing justice" coalition argues that America''s apparent inability to provide decent housing for all is a moral failing. Yet if housing is a right, as housing justice advocates contend, what is the content of that right? In a wide-ranging examination of these issues, Casey Dawkins chronicles the concept of housing justice, investigates the moral foundations of the US housing reform tradition, and proposes a new conception of housing justice that is grounded in moral principles that appeal to the home''s special connection to American life.Dawkins examines the conceptual foundations of justice and explores the social meaning of the American home. He chronicles the evolution of American housing reform, showing how housing policy was pieced together from layers of housing and land-use policies enacted over time, and investigates the endurance—from the founding of the republic through the postwar era—of the owned single-family home as the embodiment of national values. Finally, Dawkins considers housing justice, drawing on elements of liberalism, republicanism, progressivism, and pragmatism to defend a right-based conception of housing justice grounded in the ideal of civil equality. Arguing that any defense of private property must appeal to the interests of those whose tenure is made insecure by the institution of private property, he proposes a "secure tenure" property regime and a "negative housing tax" that would fund a guaranteed housing allowance.
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Form And Flow - The Spatial Politics Of Urban Resilience And Climate Justice

by Kian Goh

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 An examination of urban climate change response strategies and the resistance to them by grassroots activists and social movements.Cities around the world are formulating plans to respond to climate change and adapt to its impact. Often, marginalized urban residents resist these plans, offering "counterplans" to protest unjust and exclusionary actions. In this book, Kian Goh examines climate change response strategies in three cities—New York, Jakarta, and Rotterdam—and the mobilization of community groups to fight the perceived injustices and oversights of these plans. Looking through the lenses of urban design and socioecological spatial politics, Goh reveals how contested visions of the future city are produced and gain power.Goh describes, on the one hand, a growing global network of urban environmental planning organizations intertwined with capitalist urban development, and, on the other, social movements that themselves often harness the power of networks. She explores such initiatives as Rebuild By Design in New York, the Giant Sea Wall plan in Jakarta, and Rotterdam Climate Proof, and discovers competing narratives, including community resiliency in Brooklyn and grassroots activism in the informal "kampungs" of Jakarta. Drawing on participatory fieldwork and her own background in architecture and urban design, Goh offers both theoretical explanations and practical planning and design strategies. She reframes the critical concerns of urban climate change responses, presenting a sociospatial typology of urban adaptation and considering the notion of a "just" resilience. Finally, she proposes a theoretical framework for designing equitable and just urban climate futures.
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In The Images Of Development - City Design In The Global South

by Tridib Banerjee

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 The urban legacy of the Global South since the colonial era and how sustainable development and environmental and social justice can be achieved.Remarkably little of the expansive literature on development and globalization considers actual urban form and the physical design of cities as outcomes of these phenomena. The development that has shaped historic transformations in urban form and urbanism—and the consequent human experiences—remains largely unexplored. In this book, Tridib Banerjee fills this void by linking the idea of development with those of urbanism, urban form, and urban design, focusing primarily on the contemporary cities in the developing world—the Global South—and their intrinsic prospects in city design. Further, he examines the endogenous possibilities for the future design of these cities that may address growing inequality and the environmental crisis.Banerjee deftly traces the urban legacy of the Global South from the beginning of the colonial era, closely examining the economic, political, and ideological forces that influenced colonial and postcolonial development, drawing from relevant experiences of different cities in the developing world and discussing the arguments for the historic parity of these cities with their Western counterparts. Finally, Banerjee considers essential notions of future city design that are grounded in the critical challenges of sustainable development, equity, environmental and social justice, and diversity, and how such outcomes can be achieved. This book serves as the opening of a long overdue conversation among design, development, and planning scholars and practitioners, and those interested in the urban development of the Global South.
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Resigned Activism - Living With Pollution In Rural China

by Anna Lora-Wainwright

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 An examination of the daily grind of living with pollution in rural China and of the varying forms of activism that develop in response.Residents of rapidly industrializing rural areas in China live with pollution every day. Villagers drink obviously tainted water and breathe visibly dirty air, afflicted by a variety of ailments—from arthritis to nosebleeds—that they ascribe to the effects of industrial pollution. In Resigned Activism, Anna Lora-Wainwright explores the daily grind of living with pollution in rural China and the varying forms of activism that develop in response. This revised edition offers expanded acknowledgment of the contributions of Lora-Wainwright''s collaborators in China.Lora-Wainwright finds that claims of health or environmental damage are politically sensitive, and that efforts to seek redress are frustrated by limited access to scientific evidence, growing socioeconomic inequalities, and complex local realities. Villagers, feeling powerless, often come to accept pollution as part of the environment; their activism is tempered by their resignation. Drawing on fieldwork done with teams of collaborators, Lora-Wainwright offers three case studies of "resigned activism" in rural China, examining the experiences of villagers who live with the effects of phosphorous mining and fertilizer production, lead and zinc mining, and electronic waste processing. The book also includes extended summaries of the in-depth research carried out by Ajiang Chen and his team in some of China''s "cancer villages," village-sized clusters of high cancer incidence. These cases make clear the staggering human costs of development and the deeply uneven distribution of costs and benefits that underlie China''s economic power.
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Cycling For Sustainable Cities

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 How to make city cycling—the most sustainable means of travel—safe, practical, and convenient for all.Cycling is the most sustainable means of urban travel, practical for most short- and medium-distance trips—commuting to and from work and school, shopping, visiting friends—as well as for recreation and exercise. Cycling promotes physical, social, and mental health, helps reduce car use, enhances mobility and independence, and is economical for both public and personal budgets. Cycling should be made feasible for everyone and not limited to especially fit, daring, well-trained cyclists riding expensive bicycles. Cycling for Sustainable Cities shows how to make city cycling safe, practical, and convenient for all ages and abilities.After discussing the latest cycling trends and policies around the world, contributors consider specific aspects of cycling. They examine such topics as health benefits; cycling facilities, including traffic-protected bike lanes; cycling incentives; the needs and preferences of women, children, and older adults; and equity and social justice. Expanding on the earlier book, City Cycling, they explore cycling developments in Asia and Latin America and analyze cycling evolution and innovations in New York, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Portland (Oregon), and Sevilla. Taken together, the chapters show that successful promotion of cycling depends on a coordinated package of mutually supportive infrastructure, programs, and policies.Contents1 "Introduction: Cycling to Sustainability" by John Pucher and Ralph Buehler2 "International Overview of Cycling" by Ralph Buehler and John Pucher 3 "Cycling and Health" by Jan Garrard, Chris Rissel, Adrian Bauman, and Billie Giles-Corti 4 "Cycling Safety" by Rune Elvik 5 "Bicycling Infrastructure for All" by Peter G. Furth 6 "Bicycle Parking" by Ralph Buehler, Eva Heinen, and Kazuki Nakamura7 "Programs and Policies Promoting Cycling" by Eva Heinen and Susan Handy 8 "Evaluation of Cycling Policies and Projects" by Bert van Wee 9 "E-bikes in Europe and North America" by Christopher R. Cherry and Elliot Fishman 10 "Bikesharing''s Ongoing Evolution and Expansion " by Elliot Fishman and Susan Shaheen 11 "Women and Cycling: Addressing the Gender Gap" by Jan Garrard 12 "Children and Cycling" by Noreen McDonald, Eleftheria Kontou, and Susan Handy13 "Older Adults and Cycling" by Jan Garrard, Jennifer Conroy, Meghan Winters, John Pucher, and Chris Rissel 14 "Social Justice and Cycling" by Karel Martens, Aaron Golub, and Andrea Hamre 15 "Cycling in China and India" by John Pucher, Geetam Tiwari, Zhong-Ren Peng, Rong Cao, and Yuan Gao 16 "Cycling in Latin America" by Carlosfelipe Pardo and Daniel A. Rodriguez, with Lina Marcela Quin~ones 17 "Cycling in New York, London, and Paris" by John Pucher, John Parkin, and Emmanuel de Lanversin18 "Cycling in Copenhagen and Amsterdam" by Till Koglin, Marco te Bro¨mmelstroet, and Bert van Wee 19 "Implementation of Pro-bike Policies in Portland and Seville" by Roger Geller and Ricardo Marque´s 20 "Cycling Advocacy in Europe, North America, and Australia" by John Pucher, Bernhard Ensink, Tim Blumenthal, Bill Nesper, Ken McLeod, Andy Clarke, Jean-Franc¸ois Pronovost, Dave Snyder, Robin Stallings, Fiona Campbell, and Peter Bourke 21 "Cycling to a More Sustainable Transport Future " by Ralph Buehler and John Pucher
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Owning The Street - The Everyday Life Of Property

by Amelia Thorpe

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 How local, personal, and materially grounded understandings about belonging, ownership, and agency intersect with law to shape the city.In Owning the Street, Amelia Thorpe examines everyday experiences of and feelings about property and belonging in contemporary cities. She grounds her account in an empirical study of PARK(ing) Day, an annual event that reclaims street space from cars. A highly recognizable example of DIY urbanism, PARK(ing) Day has attracted considerable media attention, but not close scholarly examination. Focusing on the event''s trajectories in San Francisco, Sydney, and Montréal, Thorpe addresses this gap, making use of extensive fieldwork to explore these tiny, temporary, and yet often transformative urban interventions.PARK(ing) Day is based on a creative interpretation of the property producible by paying a parking meter. Paying a meter, the event''s organizers explained, amounts to taking out a lease on the space; while most "lessees" use that property to store a car, the space could be put to other uses—engaging politics (a free health clinic for migrant workers, a same sex wedding, a protest against fossil fuels) and play (a dance floor, giant Jenga, a pocket park). Through this novel rereading of everyday regulation, PARK(ing) Day provides an example of the connection between belief and action—a connection at the heart of Thorpe''s argument. Thorpe examines ways in which local, personal, and materially grounded understandings about belonging, ownership, and agency intersect with law to shape the city. Her analysis offers insights into the ways in which citizens can shape the governance of urban space, particularly in contested environments.The book''s foreword is by Davina Cooper, Research Professor in Law at King''s College London.
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Installing Automobility - Emerging Politics Of Mobility And Streets In Indian Cities

by Govind Gopakumar

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 An examination of the process of prioritizing private motorized transportation in Bengaluru, a rapidly growing megacity of the Global South.Automobiles and their associated infrastructures, deeply embedded in Western cities, have become a rapidly growing presence in the mega-cities of the Global South. Streets once crowded with pedestrians, pushcarts, vendors, and bicyclists are now choked with motor vehicles, many of them private automobiles. In this book, Govind Gopakumar examines this shift, analyzing the phenomenon of automobility in Bengaluru (formerly known as Bangalore), a rapidly growing city of about ten million people in southern India. He finds that the advent of automobility in Bengaluru has privileged the mobility needs of the elite while marginalizing those of the rest of the population. Gopakumar connects Bengaluru''s burgeoning automobility to the city''s history and to the spatial, technological, and social interventions of a variety of urban actors. Automobility becomes a juggernaut, threatening to reorder the city to enhance automotive travel. He discusses the evolution of congestion and urban change in Bengaluru; the "regimes of congestion" that emerge to address the issue; an "infrastructurescape" that shapes the mobile behavior of all residents but is largely governed by the privileged; and the enfranchisement of an "automotive citizenship" (and the disenfranchisement of non-automobile-using publics). Gopakumar also finds that automobility in Bengaluru faces ongoing challenges from such diverse sources as waste flows, popular religiosity, and political leadership. These challenges, however, introduce messiness without upsetting automobility. He therefore calls for efforts to displace automobility that are grounded in reordering the mobility regime, relandscaping the city and its infrastructures, and reclaiming streets for other uses.
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Urban Humanities - New Practices For Reimagining The City

by Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Dana Cuff, Jonathan Jae-An Crisman, Maite Zubiaurre e Todd Presner

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 Original, action-oriented humanist practices for interpreting and intervening in the city: a new methodology at the intersection of the humanities, design, and urban studies.Urban humanities is an emerging field at the intersection of the humanities, urban planning, and design. It offers a new approach not only for understanding cities in a global context but for intervening in them, interpreting their histories, engaging with them in the present, and speculating about their futures. This book introduces both the theory and practice of urban humanities, tracing the evolution of the concept, presenting methods and practices with a wide range of research applications, describing changes in teaching and curricula, and offering case studies of urban humanities practices in the field.Urban humanities views the city through a lens of spatial justice, and its inquiries are centered on the microsettings of everyday life. The book''s case studies report on real-world projects in mega-cities in the Pacific Rim—Tokyo, Shanghai, Mexico City, and Los Angeles—with several projects described in detail, including playful spaces for children in car-oriented Mexico City, a commons in a Tokyo neighborhood, and a rolling story-telling box to promote "literary justice" in Los Angeles.
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From The Inside Out - The Fight For Environmental Justice Within Government Agencies

by Jill Lindsey Harrison

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 An examination of why government agencies allow environmental injustices to persist.Many state and federal environmental agencies have put in place programs, policies, and practices to redress environmental injustices, and yet these efforts fall short of meeting the principles that environmental justice activists have fought for. In From the Inside Out, Jill Lindsey Harrison offers an account of the bureaucratic culture that hinders regulatory agencies'' attempts to reduce environmental injustices. It is now widely accepted that America''s poorest communities, communities of color, and Native American communities suffer disproportionate harm from environmental hazards, with higher exposure to pollution and higher incidence of lead poisoning, cancer, asthma, and other diseases linked to environmental ills. And yet, Harrison reports, some regulatory staff view these problems as beyond their agencies'' area of concern, requiring too many resources, or see neutrality as demanding "color-blind" administration. Drawing on more than 160 interviews (with interviewees including 89 current or former agency staff members and more than 50 environmental justice activists and others who interact with regulatory agencies) and more than 50 hours of participant observation of agency meetings (both open- and closed-door), Harrison offers a unique account of how bureaucrats resist, undermine, and disparage environmental justice reform—and how environmental justice reformers within the agencies fight back by trying to change regulatory practice and culture from the inside out. Harrison argues that equity, not just aggregated overall improvement, should be a metric for evaluating environmental regulation.
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Flint Fights Back - Environmental Justice And Democracy In The Flint Water Crisis

by Benjamin J. Pauli

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 An account of the Flint water crisis shows that Flint's struggle for safe and affordable water is part of a broader struggle for democracy.
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Transit-Oriented Displacement Or Community Dividends? - Understanding The Effects Of Smarter Growth On Communities

by Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris e Karen Chapple

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 An examination of the neighborhood transformation, gentrification, and displacement that accompany more compact development around transit.
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Science And Environment In Chile - The Politics Of Expert Advice In A Neoliberal Democracy

by Javiera Barandiaran

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 The politics of scientific advice across four environmental conflicts in Chile, when the state acted as a "neutral broker" rather than protecting the common good.
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Blue And Green - The Drive For Justice At America''S Port

by Scott L. Cummings

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 Forthcoming from the MIT Press.
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Global Cities - Urban Environments In Los Angeles, Hong Kong, And China

by Robert Gottlieb e Simon Ng

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 How Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China deal with such urban environmental issues as ports, goods movement, air pollution, water quality, transportation, and public space.
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Pastoral Capitalism - A History Of Suburban Corporate Landscapes

by Louise A. Mozingo

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 How business appropriated the pastoral landscape, as seen in the corporate campus, the corporate estate, and the office park.
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Neighborhood As Refuge - Community Reconstruction, Place Remaking, And Environmental Justice In The City

by Isabelle Anguelovski

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 An examination of environmental revitalization efforts in low-income communities in Boston, Barcelona, and Havana that help heal traumatized urban neighborhoods.
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Globalization Of Clean Energy Technology - Lessons From China

by Kelly Sims Gallagher

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 An examination of barriers that impede and incentives that motivate the global development and deployment of cleaner energy technologies, with case studies from China.
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Hybrid Nature - Sewage Treatment And The Contradictions Of The Industrial Ecosystem

by Daniel Schneider

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 A history of of the industrial ecosystem that focuses on the biological sewage treatment plant as an early example.Biological sewage treatment, like electricity, power generation, telephones, and mass transit, has been a key technology and a major part of the urban infrastructure since the late nineteenth century. But sewage treatment plants are not only a ubiquitous component of the modern city, they are also ecosystems—a hybrid variety that incorporates elements of both nature and industry and embodies multiple contradictions. In Hybrid Nature, Daniel Schneider offers an environmental history of the biological sewage treatment plant in the United States and England, viewing it as an early and influential example of an industrial ecosystem. The sewage treatment plant relies on microorganisms and other plants and animals but differs from a natural ecosystem in the extent of human intervention in its creation and management. Schneider explores the relationship between society and nature in the industrial ecosystem and the contradictions that define it: the naturalization of industry versus the industrialization of nature; the public interest versus private (patented) technology; engineers versus bacterial and human labor; and purification versus profits in the marketing of sewage fertilizer. Schneider also describes biotechnology''s direct connections to the history of sewage treatment, and how genetic engineering is extending the reaches of the industrial ecosystem to such "natural" ecosystems as oceans, rivers, and forests. In a conclusion that shows how industrial ecosystems continue to evolve, Schneider discusses John Todd''s Living Machine, a natural purification method of sewage treatment, as the embodiment of the contradictions of the industrial ecosystem.
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Small, Gritty, And Green - The Promise Of America''S Smaller Industrial Cities In A Low-Carbon World

by Catherine Tumber

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 How small-to-midsize Rust Belt cities can play a crucial role in a low-carbon, sustainable, and relocalized future.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 that laid waste to the urban fabric and displaced the working poor, small industrial cities seem to be part 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, relocalized future.As we wean ourselves from fossil fuels and realize the environmental costs of suburban sprawl, we will see that small cities offer many assets for sustainable living not shared by their big city or small town counterparts, including population density and nearby, fertile farmland available for new environmentally friendly uses.Tumber traveled to twenty-five cities in the Northeast and Midwest—from Buffalo to Peoria to Detroit to Rochester—interviewing planners, city officials, and activists, and weaving their stories into this exploration of small-scale urbanism. Smaller cities can be a critical part of a sustainable future and a productive green economy. Small, Gritty, and Green will help us develop the moral and political imagination we need to realize this.
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Technoscience And Environmental Justice - Expert Cultures In A Grassroots Movement

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 Case studies exploring how experts' encounters with environmental justice are changing technical and scientific practice.
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Environmental Inequalities Beyond Borders - Local Perspectives On Global Injustices

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 Case studies demonstrate the spatial disconnect between global consumption and production and its effects on local environmental quality and human rights.
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Greening The Ivory Tower - Improving The Environmental Track Record Of Universities, Colleges, And Other Institutions

by Sarah Creighton

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 The author was project manager of Tufts CLEAN!, a programme whose mission was to reduce Tufts University's environmental impact. Although the Tufts experience forms the basis for many of the proposals in the book, the author includes examples of successful practices from many other institutions.
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