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Green metropolis : why living smaller, living closer, and driving less are the keys to sustainability / David Owen.

By: Publisher: New York, New York : Riverhead Books, 2010Copyright date: ©2009Edition: First Riverhead trade paperback editionDescription: 357 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1594484848 (pbk.)
  • 9781594484841 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Why living smaller, living closer, and driving less are the keys to sustainability
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GF504.N7 O95 2010
Contents:
More like Manhattan -- Liquid civilization -- There and back -- The great outdoors -- Embodied efficiency -- The shape of things to come.
Summary: In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest community in the United States is not Portland, Oregon or Snowmass, Colorado, but New York City.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-345) and index.

More like Manhattan -- Liquid civilization -- There and back -- The great outdoors -- Embodied efficiency -- The shape of things to come.

In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest community in the United States is not Portland, Oregon or Snowmass, Colorado, but New York City.

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