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Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities
added by motivations on November 11, 2006 10:18 PM
In Urban Sprawl and Public Health, Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson, three of the nation's leading public health and urban planning experts explore an intriguing question: How do...
Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction
added by casurf on November 5, 2006 9:13 AM
How much would you pay for a gallon of gas? $4.00? $10.00? Would you pay with the health of your lungs or with years taken from your lifespan? The infamous "pain at the pump" runs much deeper than...
Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America
added by madfool on November 15, 2006 2:24 AM
In this brilliant, gracefully written, and important new book, former Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Arizona Bruce Babbitt brings fresh thought--and fresh air--to questions of how we can...
Sprawl Costs: Economic Impacts of Unchecked Development
added by librarian on November 7, 2006 4:12 PM
The environmental impacts of sprawling development have been well documented, but few comprehensive studies have examined its economic costs. In 1996, a team of experts undertook a multi-year study...
Sprawl Costs: Economic Impacts of Unchecked Development
added by officefan on November 14, 2006 9:16 AM
The environmental impacts of sprawling development have been well documented, but few comprehensive studies have examined its economic costs. In 1996, a team of experts undertook a multi-year study...
The Transit Metropolis: A Global Inquiry
added by tsu on November 15, 2006 11:01 PM
Around the world, mass transit is struggling to compete with the private automobile, and in many places, its market share is rapidly eroding. Yet a number of metropolitan areas have in recent decad...
Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities
added by osx on November 11, 2006 5:03 PM
In Urban Sprawl and Public Health, Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson, three of the nation's leading public health and urban planning experts explore an intriguing question: How do...
Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction
added by radar on November 13, 2006 9:13 PM
How much would you pay for a gallon of gas? $4.00? $10.00? Would you pay with the health of your lungs or with years taken from your lifespan? The infamous "pain at the pump" runs much deeper than...
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization
added by siriusfanboy on November 4, 2006 4:53 AM
Environmental disasters. Terrorist wars. Energy scarcity. Economic failure. Is this the world's inevitable fate, a downward spiral that ultimately spells the collapse of societies? Perhaps, s...
The Great Lakes Water Wars
added by formula on November 12, 2006 8:17 PM
The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing ...
