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Green Metropolis

Paperback • 2010 • English

Green Metropolis

By David Owen

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About the book

In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest community in the United States is not Portland, Oregon, or Snowmass, Colorado, but New York, New York. Most Americans think of crowded cities as ecological nightmares, as wastelands of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic jams. Yet residents of compact urban centers, Owen shows, individually consume less oil, electricity, and water than other Americans. They live in small...Show more

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9781594484841

Publisher

Riverhead Books,U.S.

Published year

2010

Language

English

Original title

Green Metropolis

Format

Paperback

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