The Environmental Advantages of Cities: Countering Commonsense Antiurbanism

by William B. Meyer

Book Overview

An analysis that offers evidence to challenge the widely held assumption that urbanization and environmental quality are necessarily at odds.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262518465
• ISBN13: 9780262518468
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher