Green Metropolis: What the City Can Teach the Country About True Sustainability
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781400163717 (1400163714)
Publish date: November 23rd 2009
Publisher: Tantor Media
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Science,
Environment,
Geography,
Economics,
Sustainability,
Green,
Architecture,
Cities,
Urban Planning,
Urbanism
Why urban living is better for the environment than the sprawl of suburbia.The author makes a terrific argument for city living and has encouraged me to be much more open-minded when it comes to environmental solutions and criticisms.
It's sad that something so obvious needs to be said so many times with so much rhetorical pushback against both environmentalists and everyone else, and if you are already a member of the choir you may find yourself skimming heavily. Still, it's reasonably lucid and a quick read.
I really enjoyed this book! Having recently moved from a single family house that was poorly insulated into a smaller high rise, where you never even need to turn on the heat, it made a lot of sense to me. However, my moving here displaced someone else, so were there really any gains in sustainabili...
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