Green Metropolis : : why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability
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More like Manhattan -- Liquid civilization -- There and back -- The great outdoors -- Embodied efficiency -- The shape of things to come.
Upending the environmentalist viewpoint that urban areas are "anti-green," New Yorker staff writer David Owen argues that sustainability is achieved in areas like New York City, while open space, backyard compost heaps, locavorism and high-tech gadgetry like solar panels and triple-paned windows are formulas for wasteful sprawl and green-washed consumerism.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Riverhead Books, 2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: 357 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781594488825
1594488827
SUBJECTS
Human ecology -- New York.
Urban ecology (Sociology) -- New York.
Social ecology -- New York.
Sustainable living -- New York.
Sustainable architecture -- New York.
Green technology -- New York.
New York (N.Y.) -- Environmental conditions.