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- Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
- ISBN: 1594488827
- WAPI (Tower ID): 113250176
- Release Date: September 24, 2009
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Product DescriptionMore Books by David Owen (Author)Run a Quick Search on "Green Metropolis: What the City Can Teach the Country about True Sustainability" by David Owen to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Green Metropolis: What the City Can Teach the Country about True Sustainability"Browse more products related to "David Owen"Review"[F]ascinating and thought-provoking....GREEN METROPOLIS offers high-test fuel for discussion." "Owen's style...is cool, understated and witty; it does not appear to be in his nature to be alarmist. But this is a thoroughly alarming book, perhaps all the more so because Owen is so matter-of-fact: The facts alone are so discouraging that no rhetorical flourishes are necessary to underscore their urgency...[T]he essential truth of his criticism is beyond debate." "With arresting and nonconformist views..., Owens offers a fresh, lucid, irreverent, and realistic view of how we live and what environmental improvement we can actually achieve." "GREEN METROPOLIS challenges many cherished assumptions about easy-on-the-earth country living, though many of its revelations may not be revelatory to hard-core carbon counters....Pugnacious and contrarian, the book has a lot of fun at the expense of sentimental pastoralists, high-minded environmentalists and rich people trying to buy their way into higher green consciousness..." Publisher's notePoses a challenging and controversial analysis of today's environment and its future prospects, arguing that residents of urban areas consume and waste less than other Americans because of their smaller living spaces and use of public transportation, in a report that explains that more regions need to emulate the examples of Manhattan. Poses a challenging and controversial analysis of today's environment and its future prospects, arguing that residents of urban areas consume and waste less than other Americans because of their smaller living spaces and use of public transportation, in a report that explains that more regions need to emulate the examples of Manhattan. A challenging, controversial, and highly readable look at our lives, our world, and our future. AnnotationWhile the common conception of the city still encompasses factories and smokestacks coughing toxic clouds of smoke into the stratosphere, New Yorker reporter David Owen illustrates that urban spaces are far more environmentally friendly and sustainable than suburbs or rural locales. Owen argues quite convincingly that areas of dense population inherently use energy much more efficiently than the spread-out dwellings of suburbia, while the traffic and congestion encourage citizens to walk or use mass transit. Owen cites the automobile as the main source of our ecological distress and contends that efforts must be made to make driving as unpleasant as possible, from raising tolls and parking fees to reducing road capacity. While Owen enjoys ripping into the homespun green-freaks who continue to drive to town each day from their isolated cabins, he acknowledges that a combination of the ideals of the back-to-nature movement with the practical logistics of the city is our best hope for limiting the rampant spread of ecological decay. If You Enjoy "Green Metropolis: What the City Can Teach the Country about True Sustainability (Hardcover)", May We Also Recommend:
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