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BL
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673897
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b503086
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| Main Entry
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Owen, David.
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| Title & Author
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Green metropolis : : why living smaller, living closer, and driving less are the keys to sustainability /\ David Owen.
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| Edition Statement
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1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Riverhead Books,, 2010, c2009.
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357 p. ;; 21 cm.
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| ISBN
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1594484848
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: 9781594484841
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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More like Manhattan -- Liquid civilization -- There and back -- The great outdoors -- Embodied efficiency -- The shape of things to come.
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| Abstract
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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 City.
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Human ecology-- New York (State)-- New York.
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Social ecology-- New York (State)-- New York.
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Sustainable architecture-- New York (State)-- New York.
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Sustainable living-- New York (State)-- New York.
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Urban ecology (Sociology)-- New York (State)-- New York.
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New York (N.Y.), Environmental conditions.
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