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Title The humane metropolis : people and nature in the 21st-century city / edited by Rutherford H. Platt.

Publication Info. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press in association with Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 326 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium monochrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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 -- Energizer / Ann Louise Strong -- Sowing the seeds / Thomas Balsley -- Wit and wisdom of Holly Whyte / Albert LaFarge -- From city parks to regional green infrastructure. Excellent city park system : what makes it great and how to get there / Peter Harnik -- 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 -- "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. 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.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject Urban ecology (Sociology) -- United States -- Congresses.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
United States.
City planning -- United States -- Congresses.
City planning.
Greenbelts -- United States -- Congresses.
Greenbelts.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Platt, Rutherford H.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Other Form: Print version: Humane metropolis. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press in association with Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, ©2006 (DLC) 2006019435 (OCoLC)68262926
ISBN 9781613761519 (electronic book)
1613761511 (electronic book)
1558495541 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9781558495548 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
1558495533 (library cloth)
9781558495531 (library cloth)