Emerald Cities: Urban Sustainability and Economic Development
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (586 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195382765 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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--Gilbert Taylor . From Booklist From a stalwart progressive perspective, Fitzgerald surveys contemporary initiatives in American cities to create green jobs. 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, Oregon, a bastion of bicycling promotion, signal that progressives’ approaches to the green future are widespread and active around the country. Thus in her discussions of projects, a slew of government taxes, subsidies, and regulations, plus foundation grants, numerically defines the projects that she presents. In Fitzgerald’s book, the measures tend to be numbers of green jobs created and t
"five stars" according to Alice Pitre. 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 environmentalists but by any working urban planner or economic developer.. Emerald Cities. A possible Dream. Dorven Dorta 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 actual data to support its statements.The creation of a low carbon industry will create millions of jobs in the United States as stated. 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 Lexington and Louisville, Cincinnati and Columbus, Indianapolis and Bloomington to emulate. What fascinates her is how, in the face of eight
Workers and Economic Revitalization: Cases and Strategies for City and Suburb. She lives in Boston.. 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
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.. Here is a refreshing look at how American cities are leading the way toward greener, cleaner, and more sustainable forms of economic development. 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. 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 have taken the lead in addressing the interrelated environmental problems of global warming, pollution, energy dependence, and social justice. 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. Fitzgerald also examines how investing