Growing greener cities: urban sustainability in the twenty-first century

Preface: common ground, common good / Amy Gutmann

Introduction: urban greening and the green city ideal / Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter

Greening at every scale: nation to roof tops

Taking the initiative: why cities are greening now / Tom Daniels

Growing greener regions / Robert D. Yaro and David M. Kooris

The inter-regional dimension: the greening of London and the wider South East / Robin Thompson

Greening cities: a public realm approach / Alexander Garvin

Growing greener, New York style / Rachel Weinberger

Greener homes, greener cities: expanding affordable housing and strengthening cities through sustainable residential development / Stockton Williams and Dana L. Bourland

Getting greening done

Urban stream restoration: recovering ecological services in degraded watersheds / Rutherford H. Platt ... [et al.]

The role of citizen activists in urban infrastructure development / Paul R. Brown

Blue-green practices: why they work and why they have been so difficult to implement through public policy / Charlie Miller

The roots of the urban greening movement / Victor Rubin

Leveraging media for social change / Harry Wiland and Dale Bell

Transformation through greening / J. Blaine Bonham, Jr., and Patricia L. Smith

Community development finance and the green city / Jeremy Nowak

Growing edible cities / Domenic Vitiello

Measuring urban greening

Ecosystem services and the green city / Dennis D. Hirsch

Metro nature: its functions, benefits, and values / Kathleen L. Wolf

Green investment strategies: how they matter for urban neighborhoods / Susan M. Wachter, Kevin C. Gillen, and Carolyn R. Brown

Measuring the economic impacts of greening: the center for neighborhood technology green values calculator / Julia Kennedy, Peter Haas, and Bill Eyring

What makes today's green city? / Warren Karlenzig

Afterword / Neal Peirce

List of contributors.