Green cities : urban growth and the environment /

Green cities : urban growth and the environment /

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Author / Creator:	Kahn, Matthew E., 1966-
Imprint:	Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2006.
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 160 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Urban ecology (Sociology) Urbanization -- Environmental aspects. Cities and towns -- Growth. Cities and towns -- Growth. Urban ecology (Sociology) Urbanization -- Environmental aspects.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11149234

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ISBN:	0815748140 9780815748144 0815748167 0815748159 9780815748168 9780815748151
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Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-149) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. 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 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	Rapid urban growth and suburban sprawl have heightened concern in many quarters about sustainable development. Are economic growth and environmental health always mutually exclusive goals? Nearly everyone would choose to pursue both given the chance, but many believe that it would be overly optimisticperhaps naveto expect both.
Other form:	Print version: Kahn, Matthew E., 1966- Green cities. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2006 0815748167 0815748159

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.