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State of the world 2007 : our urban future : a Worldwatch Institute report on progress toward a sustainable society.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton, 2007Description: xxxi, 250 p. : ill., charts ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780393329230
  • 0393329232
Other title:
  • Our urban future : a Worldwatch Institute report on progress toward a sustainable society
  • Worldwatch Institute report on progress toward a sustainable society
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.76 22
Contents:
State of the world: A year in review / Lisa Mastny -- An urbanizing world / Kai N. Lee -- Timbuktu : greening the Hinterlands -- Loja : ecological and healthy city -- Providing clean water and sanitation / David Satterthwaite, Gordon McGranahan -- Lagos : collapsing infrastructure -- Farming the cities / Brian Halweil, Danielle Nierenberg -- Freetown : urban farms after a war -- Greening urban transportation / Peter Newman, Jeff Kenworthy -- Los Angeles : end of sprawl -- Melbourne: reducing a city's carbon emissions -- Energizing cities / Janet L. Sawin, Kristen Hughes -- Rizhao : solar-powered city -- Malmö : building a green future -- Reducing natural disaster risk in cities / Zoë Chafe -- Jakarta : river management -- Mumbai : policing by the people -- Charting a new course for urban public health / Carolyn Stephens, Peter Stair -- Nairobi : life in Kibera -- Petra : managing tourism -- Strengthening local economies / Mark Roseland with Lena Soots -- Brno : Brownfield redevelopment -- Fighting poverty and environmental injustice in cities / Janice E. Perlman with Molly O'Meara Sheehan.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-239) and index.

State of the world: A year in review / Lisa Mastny -- An urbanizing world / Kai N. Lee -- Timbuktu : greening the Hinterlands -- Loja : ecological and healthy city -- Providing clean water and sanitation / David Satterthwaite, Gordon McGranahan -- Lagos : collapsing infrastructure -- Farming the cities / Brian Halweil, Danielle Nierenberg -- Freetown : urban farms after a war -- Greening urban transportation / Peter Newman, Jeff Kenworthy -- Los Angeles : end of sprawl -- Melbourne: reducing a city's carbon emissions -- Energizing cities / Janet L. Sawin, Kristen Hughes -- Rizhao : solar-powered city -- Malmö : building a green future -- Reducing natural disaster risk in cities / Zoë Chafe -- Jakarta : river management -- Mumbai : policing by the people -- Charting a new course for urban public health / Carolyn Stephens, Peter Stair -- Nairobi : life in Kibera -- Petra : managing tourism -- Strengthening local economies / Mark Roseland with Lena Soots -- Brno : Brownfield redevelopment -- Fighting poverty and environmental injustice in cities / Janice E. Perlman with Molly O'Meara Sheehan.

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