Urban Development for the 21st Century
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This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. The articles chosen for this compendium cover many aspects of urban living, such as how individuals, households, and cities use resources and create greenhouse gas emissions and how urban resources can be expanded to include waste streams, among others. Case studies and up-to-date research provide urban planners with new options for creating cities that will meet the demands of the twenty-first century. Also appropriate for graduate students who are preparing for careers related to urban planning, this compendium captures and integrates the current work being done in this vitally important field.…mehr

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This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. The articles chosen for this compendium cover many aspects of urban living, such as how individuals, households, and cities use resources and create greenhouse gas emissions and how urban resources can be expanded to include waste streams, among others. Case studies and up-to-date research provide urban planners with new options for creating cities that will meet the demands of the twenty-first century. Also appropriate for graduate students who are preparing for careers related to urban planning, this compendium captures and integrates the current work being done in this vitally important field.
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Kim Etingoff has a master's degree in urban and environmental policy and planning from Tufts University. She is currently researching a report on food resiliency within the city of Boston as part of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City. She participated in the Practical Visionaries Workshop team that worked in partnership with Alternatives for Community and Environment to support a community food-planning process based in a Boston neighborhood, which was oriented toward creating a vehicle for community action around urban food issues, providing extensive background research to ground the resident-led planning process. She has worked in the Boston Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics, and has also coordinated and developed programs in urban agriculture and nutrition education. In addition, she has many years of experience researching, writing, and editing educational books on environmental and food issues.