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  title info:
    title: Taking sustainable cities seriuosly [
    sub title: economic development, the environment, and quality of life in American cities
  name:
    name part: Portney, Kent E.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Cambridge, Massachusetts
    publisher: MIT Press
    date issued: c2013
    date issued: 2013
    edition: 2nd ed
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: electronic resource]
    extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 380 p.) : ill
  abstract: A theoretically driven comparison of sustainability programs in U.S. cities.
  table of contents: 1. The conceptual foundations of sustainable cities : sustainability, sustainale economic development, and sustainable communities -- 2. Measuring the seriousness if sustainable cities -- 3. The environment, energy, and sustainability seriously : profiles of eight cities -- 4. The economic development side of sustainability : growth versus smart growth -- 5. Communitarian and participatory foundations of sustainable cities: solutions to the tragedy of the commons, the NIMBY syndrome, and transboundary impacts? -- 6. Is a sustainable city a more egalitarian place? Sustainable cities, environmental equity, and social justice -- 7. The implementation of city sustainability policies -- 8. Sustainability in the "Big Five" US cities : a story of rapid change -- 9. The medium-sized cities that take sustainability seriously : profiles of eight cities -- 10. Sustainability approaches and results in three smaller cities -- 11. Why some citiies take sustainability more seriously than others : correlational patterns across cities -- 12. Taking sustainable cities seriously : summary and conclusions
  note: Kent E. Portney
  note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-370) and index
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable development
    geographic: United states
  subject:
    topic: Urban ecology (Sociology)
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Urban policy
    geographic: United States
  classification: HT243.U6 P67 2013
  identifier: 0262312352 (e-book)
  identifier: 0262518279
  identifier: 9780262312356 (e-book)
  identifier: 9780262518277
  record info:
    record creation date: 140102
    record change date: 20140320093000.0
    record identifier: 0000085991