The Environmental Advantages of Cities: Countering Commonsense Antiurbanism

by William B. Meyer

Book Overview

Conventional wisdom about the environmental impact of cities holds that urbanization and environmental quality are necessarily at odds. Cities are seen to be sites of ecological disruption, consuming a disproportionate share of natural resources, producing high levels of pollution, and concentrating harmful emissions precisely where the population is most concentrated. Cities appear to be particularly vulnerable to natural disasters, to be inherently...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262019043
• ISBN13: 9780262019040
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"