Small, gritty, and green : the promise of America's smaller industrial cities in a low-carbon world /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tumber, Catherine
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2012]
Series:	Urban and industrial environments.
Subjects:	Urban ecology (Sociology) > United States. Fossil fuels > Environmental aspects > United States. Land use, Urban > Environmental aspects > United States. Renewable energy sources > Technological innovations > United States. Technology > Economic aspects > United States.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : beloved communties, benighted times
Against "shapeless giantism."
Mega dreams and small city realities : trafficking in transportation planning
Agriculture on the urban fringe and beyond
Framing urban farming
Making good : renewables and the revival of smaller industrial cities
Roots of knowledge : local economics, urban scale, and schooling for civic renewal.