Small, gritty, and green : the promise of America's smaller industrial cities in a low-carbon world - Tumber, Catherine (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2012)
Introduction : beloved communties, benighted times -- Against'shapeless giantism.' -- Mega dreams and small city realities : trafficking in transportation planning -- Agriculture on the urban fringe and beyond -- Framing urban farming -- Making good : renewables and the revival of smaller industrial cities -- Roots of knowledge : local economics, urban scale, and schooling for civic renewal.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Urban ecology (Sociology) -- United States; Fossil fuels -- Environmental aspects -- United States; Land use, Urban -- Environmental aspects -- United States; Renewable energy sources -- Technological innovations -- United States; Technology -- Economic aspects -- United States