Small, Gritty, and Green
The Promise of America's Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World
$54.15
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
13 September 2013
Summary
How small-to-midsize Rust Belt cities can play a crucial role in a low-carbon, sustainable, and relocalized future.America’s once-vibrant small-to-midsize cities-Syracuse, Worcester, Akron, Flint, Rockford, and others-increasingly resemble urban wastelands. Gutted by deindustrialization, outsourcing, and middle-class flight, disproportionately devastated by metro freeway systems that laid waste to the urban fabric and displaced the working poor, small industrial cities seem to be part of Amer…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262525312 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262525313 |
| Author: | Catherine Tumber |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 13 September 2013 |
| Weight: | 349g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Small, Gritty, and Green |
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”[Tumber’s] excellent new book
[Tumber’s] excellent new book…finds potential in many busted and booming-again cities.
– Scott Carlson * Urbanite *About The Author
Catherine Tumber
Historian and journalist Catherine Tumber is a Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, a Fellow of the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth’s Gateway Cities Innovation Institute, and a former Research Affiliate with the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning’s Community Innovators Lab.
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