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Resilient Cities: Responding To Peak Oil And Climate Change
Island Press (Publisher)
Product Specifications
Book Description
Half of the world's inhabitants now live in cities. In the next twenty years,
the number of urban dwellers will swell to an estimated five billion people.
With their inefficient transportation systems and poorly designed buildings,
many cities--especially in the United States--consume enormous quantities of
fossil fuels and emit high levels of greenhouse gases. But our planet is rapidly
running out of the carbon-based fuels that have powered urban growth for
centuries and we seem to be unable to curb our greenhouse gas emissions. Are the
world's cities headed for inevitable collapse? The authors of this spirited book
don't believe that oblivion is necessarily the destiny of
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9781597264990
Language English
Binding Paper Back
Publisher Island Press
Publishing Date 2009-01-09
Product Edition 1
Total Pages 184