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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 America's past, not its future. And yet, Catherine Tumber argues in this provocative book, America's gritty Rust Belt cities could play a central role in a greener, low-carbon, relocalized future.As we wean ourselves from fossil fuels and realize the environmental costs of suburban sprawl, we will see that small cities offer many assets for sustainable living not shared by their big city or small town counterparts, including population density and nearby, fertile farmland available for new environmentally friendly uses.Tumber traveled to twenty-five cities in the Northeast and Midwest -- from Buffalo to Peoria to Detroit to Rochester -- interviewing planners, city officials, and activists, and weaving their stories into this exploration of small-scale urbanism. Smaller cities can be a critical part of a sustainable future and a productive green economy. Small, Gritty, and Green will help us develop the moral and political imagination we need to realize this.
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9780262016698 | Mit Pr, November 10, 2011, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: America's once-vibrant small-to-midsize cities -- Syracuse, Worcester, Akron, Flint, Rockford, and others -- increasingly resemble urban wastelands.
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9780262525312 | Reprint edition (Mit Pr, September 13, 2013), cover price $15.95
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9781421401973 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, August 31, 2011, cover price $75.00
Product Description: The catastrophic release of oil into the Gulf of Mexico by BPâs Deepwater Horizon well has been a wake-up call, bringing home to Americans in a very personal wayÂmore powerfully than statistics on peak oil or global warmingÂthe message that we must end our destructive dependence on fossil fuels...read more
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9781578051908 | 2 edition (Sierra Club Books, November 1, 2010), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The catastrophic release of oil into the Gulf of Mexico by BPâs Deepwater Horizon well has been a wake-up call, bringing home to Americans in a very personal wayÂmore powerfully than statistics on peak oil or global warmingÂthe message that we must end our destructive dependence on fossil fuels.
9781578051496 | Sierra Club Books, September 1, 2008, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In this timely book, Michael Brune, executive director of Rainforest Action Network (RAN), shows us how we, as motivated citizens, can kick our own fossil-fuel habit and pressure policymakers and corporations to change their energy priorities.
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9780814413722 | Amacom Books, August 1, 2011, cover price $27.95
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9780865317123 | Westview Pr, December 1, 1983, cover price $46.50 | About this edition: Book by Alm, Alvin L.
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