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Tumber, Catherine.

Small, gritty, and green the promise of America's smaller industrial cities in a low-carbon world / [electronic resource] : Catherine Tumber. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012. - xxxiv, 211 p. : ill. - Urban and industrial environments . - Urban and industrial environments. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : beloved communties, benighted times -- Against "shapeless giantism." -- Mega dreams and small city realities : trafficking in transportation planning -- Agriculture on the urban fringe and beyond -- Framing urban farming -- Making good : renewables and the revival of smaller industrial cities -- Roots of knowledge : local economics, urban scale, and schooling for civic renewal.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Urban ecology (Sociology)--United States.
Fossil fuels--Environmental aspects--United States.
Land use, Urban--Environmental aspects--United States.
Renewable energy sources--Technological innovations--United States.
Technology--Economic aspects--United States.

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HT153 / .T86 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 333.770973