Emerald Cities: Urban Sustainability and Economic Development
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (529 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195382765 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Cities are major sources of pollution but because of their population density, reliance on public transportation, and other factors, Fitzgerald argues that they are uniquely suited to promote and benefit from green economic development. And for cities wishing to emulate those already engaged in developing greener economic practices, Fitzgerald shows which strategies will be most effective according to each city's size, economic history, geography, and other unique circumstances. Here is a refreshing look at how American cities are leading the way toward greener, cleaner, and more sustainable forms of economic development. But cities cannot act alone, and Fitzgerald analyzes the role of state and national government policy in helping cities create the next wave of clean technology growth. Lucid, forward-looking, and guided by a level-headed optimism that clearly distinguishes between genuine progress and exaggerated claims, Emerald Cities points the way toward a sustainable future for the American city.. In Emerald Cities, Joan Fitzgerald shows how in the absence of a comprehensive national policy, cities like Chicago, New York, Portland, San Francisco, and Seattle hav
Alice Pitre said five stars. Emerald Cities is fully accessible in style and tone. It relies heavily on insights from field visits and quotations from in-depth interviews but is also fully referenced, at scholarly standards, to government and industry data and prior publications. Overall, this is a first-rate synthesis of the state of the art in key sustainability sectors and their applicability to economic development. It should be read not just by environmen. Dorven Dorta said Emerald Cities. A possible Dream.. This book is an overall review of the state of the American cities regarding the implementation of urban sustainability and its relation with economic development. Starting with the premise that sustainable economic development cannot be achieved without the implementation of appropriate policies the author analyzes in this book how cities in America are implementing this policies using different examples of cities and a bundle of . Ernest Yanarella said A Sustainability Book for Reasoned Hope in a Dangerous Century. Although the Seattles and Portlands and Austins do figure in urban policy scholar Joan Fitzgerald's examination of tactics and strategies to join urban sustainability and economic development, she reminds us in her splendid new book, Emerald Cities: Urban Sustainability and Economic Development, that cities like Toledo and Syracuse, Cleveland and Oakland may provide the more transferable tactics and exemplars for cities like Lexing
In Fitzgerald’s book, the measures tend to be numbers of green jobs created and the project’s reduction of carbon emissions, not those of free-enterprise profitability. Organizing urban projects into renewable energy, energy efficiency, building renovation and construction, the waste and recycling streams, and transportation, the author enumerates their goals, financing schemes, and measures of success. Thus in her discussions of projects, a slew of government taxes, subsidies, and regulations, plus foundation grants, numerically defines the projects that she presents. If green projects in big cities such as New York and Los Angeles are prominent in Fitzgerald’s inventory, midsize burgs such as Toledo, Ohio, a site of solar-technology manufacturing, or Portland,
Workers and Economic Revitalization: Cases and Strategies for City and Suburb. Joan Fitzgerald is the Director of the Law, Policy and Society Program at Northeastern University and the author of Moving Up in the New Economy: Career Ladders for U.S. She lives in Boston.