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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Growing smarter. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007 (OCoLC)608204461 |
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| 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 around regional planning, economic justice, and sustainability in general. They are building on the work of a wide range of scholars, activists, policymakers, and political leaders, and they do an admirable job." David Naguib Pellow, University of California, San Diego, author of Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago Read more...
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