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Toward the Livable City
edited by Emilie Buchwald
In this collection of essays, notable writers such as Bill McKibben (The End of Nature), Jane Holz Kay (author of Asphalt Nation) and Tony Hiss (a former staff writer for The New Yorker) offer their own definitions of what makes a city livable, as well as detailed strategies for improving both city and suburban life. Refreshingly light on technical jargon and laced with practical examples from around the world, this volume is a useful and illuminating look at the richness of city life that doubles as an offbeat guide to urban planning.
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paperback (ISBN: 1571312714)
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The Next American Metropolis
Ecology, Community, and the American Dream
by Peter Calthorpe
The one that most changed my career -- and my life, for that matter. It tells us why we must do something about urban/suburban sprawl and then exactly what we should do, with great illustrations.
-- KAID BENFIELD
paperback (ISBN: 1878271687)
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Bronx Ecology
Blueprint for a New Environmentalism
by Allen Hershkowitz
The full story of the Bronx Community Paper Corporation (BCPC) is a tale only New York City could produce, and Allen Hershkowitz's account of BCPC's rise and fall, in his book Bronx Ecology: Blueprint for a New Environmentalism, captures all the twists and turns. It features real-life big city pols, a groundbreaking environmental vision, the science and economics of recycling, a glimpse of the tangled regulatory web that burdened BCPC, the graceful but practical beauty of Maya Lin's designs for the plant, and more. And as its title promises, it lays out a practical roadmap for the future of environmentalism. Published in autumn of 2002, the book has a foreword and conceptual design essay by Maya Lin and been described as "must reading" by Gustave Speth, the Dean of Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences.
-- MATTHEW FREEMAN
hardcover (ISBN: 1559638648)
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The People's Forests
by Robert Marshall
With industry pressing to open more and more of our public lands to development, the message of renowned forester Marshall's 1933 treatise -- that America's forests should be federally managed and protected from commercial interests -- is as pertinent as ever. Reissued in 2002 by the University of Iowa Press's American Land and Life Series, Marshall's book offers abundant insights on issues at the core of today's debate over land management.
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paperback (ISBN: 0877458057)
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The End of Oil
On the Edge of a Perilous New World
by Paul Roberts
Roberts, who writes regularly about business and environmental issues for Harper's and other publications, offers a persuasive and highly readable analysis of the technological, economic and political factors shaping the challenge of overhauling the world's energy system. He calls for a series of policy changes designed to encourage energy efficiency, boost investment in alternative energy sources and new technologies and improve international cooperation on such issues as global warming.
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hardcover (ISBN: 0618239774)
paperback (ISBN: 0618562117)
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Red Sky at Morning
America and the Crisis of the Global Environment
by James Gustave Speth
In this authoritative and carefully researched work, NRDC trustee Gus Speth warns that governments around the world are not doing enough to head off environmental threats. Presenting a range of ecological data and informed perspectives, though, Speth argues that it's not too late to change course and lays out a series of specific steps to save the planet from an irreparable crisis.
-- ALLEN HERSHKOWITZ
hardcover (ISBN: 0300102321)
paperback (ISBN: 0300107765)
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Good News for a Change
How Everyday People are Helping the Planet
by David Suzuki and Holly Dressel
An attempt to look at environmental problems with a hopeful eye, this collaboration between media-savvy Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki and U.S.-based writer Holly Dressel sizes up the current state of the environment and offers some solutions, many of them based upon the importance of building consensus. Along with facts, stats and case studies, Suzuki and Dressel throw in a critique of neoliberal economics.
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hardcover (ISBN: 155054926X)
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