Research Catalog

Title

Green cities : urban growth and the environment / Matthew E. Kahn.

Author

Kahn, Matthew E., 1966-

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Description

vii, 160 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"In Green Cities, Matthew Kahn surveys the burgeoning economic literature on the environmental consequences of urban growth. He discusses the environmental Kuznets curve, which theorizes that the relationship between environmental quality and per capita income follows a bell-shaped curve. The heart of the book unpacks and expands this notion by tracing the environmental effects of economic growth, population growth, and suburban sprawl. Kahn considers how cities can deal with the environmental challenges produced by growth. His concluding chapter addresses the role of cities in promoting climate change and asks how cities in turn are likely to be affected by this trend."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Urban ecology (Sociology)
• Groenvoorzieningen
• Urbanization > Environmental aspects
• Cities and towns > Growth
• Stadsplanning

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-149) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Measuring urban environmental quality -- 3. The urban environmental kuznets curve -- 4. Income growth and the urban environment : the role of the market -- 5. Income growth and greener governance -- 6. Population growth and the urban environment -- 7. Spatial growth : the environmental cost of sprawl in the United States -- 8. Achieving urban and global sustainability.

ISBN

• 0815748167 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780815748168 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0815748159 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780815748151 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006021499
• 99819552219

OCLC

• 65468600
• SCSB-9240626

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries