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Urban Development for the 21st Century (eBook, PDF)

Managing Resources and Creating Infrastructure

Redaktion: Etingoff, Kimberly

Beschreibung

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Urban planners around the world are increasingly concerned with creating and maintaining cities that are healthy for both the environment and for individuals. Cities are at the forefront of the trend toward sustainable living, since they are the site of concentrated population, resource use, and

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Autor

Kim Etingoff has a master's degree in urban and environmental policy and planning from Tufts University. She is currently researching a report on food resiliency within the city of Boston as part of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City. She participated in the Practical Visionaries Workshop team that worked in partnership with Alternatives for Community and Environment to support a community food-planning process based in a Boston neighborhood, which was oriented toward creating a vehicle for community action around urban food issues, providing extensive background research to ground the resident-led planning process. She has worked in the Boston Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics, and has also coordinated and developed programs in urban agriculture and nutrition education. In addition, she has many years of experience researching, writing, and editing educational books on environmental and food issues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781771882583
• Artikelnr.: 43978163