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Four-fifths of Americans now live in the nation's sprawling metropolitan areas, and half of the world's population is now classified as'urban.'As cities become the dominant living evironment for humans, there is growing concern about how to make such places more habitable, more healthy and safe, more ecological, and more equitable -- in short, more'humane.'This book explores the prospects for a more humane metropolis through a series of essays and case studies that consider why and how urban places can be made greener and more amenable. Its point of departure is the legacy of William H. Whyte (1917-1999), one of America's most admired urban thinkers. From his eyrie high above Manhattan in the offices of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Whyte laid the foundation for today's'smart growth'and'new urbanist'movements with books such as The Last Landscape (1968). His passion for improving the habitability of cities and suburbs is reflected in the diverse grassroots urban design and regreening strategies discussed in this volume.Topics examined in this book include urban and regional greenspaces, urban ecological restoration, social equity, and green design. Some of the contributors are rec
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- Author
- Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.;Platt, Rutherford H
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press; University of Massachusetts Press in association with Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781558495531
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Nature
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