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Green cities : urban growth and the environment /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kahn, Matthew E., 1966-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2006]
Subjects:
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urbanization > Environmental aspects.
Cities and towns > Growth.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Measuring urban environmental quality
  • The urban environmental Kuznets curve
  • Income growth and the urban environment: the role of the market
  • Income growth and greener governance
  • Population growth and the urban environment
  • Spatial growth: the environmental cost of sprawl in the United States
  • Achieving urban and global sustainability.