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Paperback The Humane Metropolis: People and Nature in the 21st-Century City [With DVD] Book

ISBN: 1558495541

ISBN13: 9781558495548

The Humane Metropolis: People and Nature in the 21st-Century City [With DVD]

Four-fifths of Americans now live in the nation's sprawling metropolitan areas, and half of the world's population is now classified as "urban." As cities become the dominant living evironment for humans, there is growing concern about how to make such places more habitable, more healthy and safe, more ecological, and more equitable--in short, more "humane."

This book explores the prospects for a more humane metropolis through a series of essays...

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