Green city
Subtitle: people, nature, and urban places
By: Mary Soderstrom.
Publisher: Véhicule Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Montreal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781550652079
Subjects: Urban ecology; Human ecology; Community development, Urban -- Environmental aspects; City planning -- Environmental aspects; Urban plants; Écologie urbaine; Écologie humaine; Développement communautaire urbain -- Aspect de l'environment; Urbanisme -- Aspect de l'environnement; Flore urbaine
Notes: Includes bibliographical references: p. 229-239.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The first cities: Babylon and Princess Amytis's garden; title: Provins: the legacy of walled cities; title: The City of London, Bloomsbury and Richmond: the transformation of the city on the Thames; title: Hamilton, Ontario: city beautiful and steeltown; title: Chicago: balloons and white flight; title: Irvine, California: the ultimate planned suburb; title: Singapore: the realm of the philosopher king; title: Tanga, Tanzania: colonial town, World Heritage future?; title: Kochi, India: the green gem on the Arabian Sea; title: Shanghai: creative destruction; title: São Paulo: no limits to growth; title: Babylon revisited- and what that means.