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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
- 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.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Platt, Rutherford H.Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9781558495531
- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-529