Greening the city

Greening the city by Christopher Young Download PDF EPUB FB2

The Guide to Greening Cities is the first book written from the perspective of municipal leaders with successful, on-the-ground experience working to advance green city goals. Through personal reflections and interviews with leading municipal staff in cities from San Antonio to Minneapolis, the authors share lessons for cities to lead by.

"Greening Up The City" is a team of environmental educators whose mission to promote urban ecology education. People Dr. Angela Loder is Director and Principle Researcher for Greening the City.

She is a researcher scientist, strategic planner, and educator with over ten years’ experience examining the relationship between the built and natural urban environment and human health and well-being outcomes.

Loder specializes in strategic planning, analysis and translation of complex data to. Richard Walker's The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area (University of Washington Press, ), however, makes it a point to demonstrate that the presence of one of the above is not mutually exclusive to the other.

In fact, Walker notes, the preservation of so much green space in the Bay Area was reliant upon an Cited by: 8.

The Greening of the City. By Jane Jacobs. In New York, the trend began still earlier, although the city tried to block it, and sometimes did, by offering corporations, especially those with. I am currently working on a book (due out in with Routledge) on small-scale urban greening, and how it links to health, well-being, sustainability, and policy.

Using case studies from Philadelphia, Chicago, Toronto and Seattle, the book examines the intersection of policy, research and practice and how it impacts our health and well-being.