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

Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in The Twenty-First Century

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-392

  Birch, Eugenie L ^a   Wachter, Susan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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40. A partial list is available at SustainLane government website, http://www.sustainlane.us/sl-media.jsp.
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