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Growing smarter : achieving livable communities, environmental justice, and regional equity
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Growing smarter : achieving livable communities, environmental justice, and regional equity

Author: Robert D Bullard
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
Series: Urban and industrial environments.; Urban and industrial environments., Sustainable metropolitan communities books.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Experts from academia, government, and nonprofit organizations offer an environmental justice perspective on Smart Growth, discussing equitable solutions to suburban sprawl and urban decay.

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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Growing smarter.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007
(OCoLC)608204461
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Robert D Bullard
ISBN: 0262026104 9780262026109 0262524708 9780262524704
OCLC Number: 70292152
Awards: Shortlisted for Association for Humanist Sociology Book Award 2008.
Description: xvii, 407 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Contents: Smart growth meets environmental justice / Robert D. Bullard --
Race, poverty, and urban sprawl : access to opportunities through regional strategies / John A. Powell --
¿Quién es más urbanista? Latinos and smart growth / Manuel Pastor, Jr. --
Sprawl and civil rights : a mayor's reflections / William A. Johnson, Jr. --
Nashville : an experiment in metropolitan governance / David A. Padgett --
Smart growth and the legacy of segregation in Richland County, South Carolina / Maya Wiley --
Food justice and health in communities of color / Kimberly Morland and Steve Wing --
Washed away by Hurricane Katrina : rebuilding a "new" New Orleans / Beverly Wright and Robert D. Bullard --
Confronting transportation sprawl in metro Atlanta / Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres --
Environmental justice and transportation equity : a review of MPOs / Thomas W. Sanchez and James F. Wolf --
Beyond dirty diesels : clean and just transportation in Northern Manhattan / Swati R. Prakash --
Linking transportation equity and environmental justice with smart growth / Don Chen --
Building regional coalitions between cities and suburbs / Myron Orfield --
Smart growth tools for revitalizing environmentally challenged urban communities / Daniel J. Hutch.
Series Title: Urban and industrial environments.; Urban and industrial environments., Sustainable metropolitan communities books.
Responsibility: edited by Robert D. Bullard.
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"An impressive group of authors have come together to link conversations, debates, theories, and political action around the movements for smart growth and environmental justice in particular, and Read more...

 
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