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The humane metropolis : people and nature in the 21st-century city

Title
The humane metropolis : people and nature in the 21st-century city / edited by Rutherford H. Platt.
Publication
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press in association with Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, c2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Platt, Rutherford H.
  • Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Description
viii, 326 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm. +
Subjects
Note
  • Conference papers.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The man who loved cities? Whyte on Whyte : a walk in the city / Eugenie L. Birch -- 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
Call Number
JFE 07-529
ISBN
  • 1558495541 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9781558495548 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1558495533 (library cloth)
  • 9781558495531 (library cloth)
LCCN
  • 2006019435
  • 9781558495531
OCLC
68262926
Title
The humane metropolis : people and nature in the 21st-century city / edited by Rutherford H. Platt.
Imprint
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press in association with Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, c2006.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Platt, Rutherford H.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
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9781558495531
Research Call Number
JFE 07-529
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