The Humane Metropolis

Four-fifths of Americans now live in the nation's sprawling metropolitan areas, and half of the world's population is now classified as "urban." As cities become the dominant living environment for humans, there is growing concern about how to make such places more habitable, more healthy and safe, more ecological, and more equitable-in short, more "humane."

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction: Humanizing the Exploding Metropolis

Rutherford H. Platt

1

(20)

Part I "The Man Who Loved Cities"

21

(20)

Whyte on Whyte: A Walk in the City

Eugenie L. Birch

25

(7)

Holly Whyte's Journalism of Place

Charles E. Little

32

(3)

The Energizer

Ann Louise Strong

35

(2)

Sowing the Seeds

Thomas Balsley

37

(1)

The Wit and Wisdom of Holly Whyte

Albert LaFarge

38

(3)

Part II From City Parks to Regional Green Infrastructure

41

(82)

The Excellent City Park System: What Makes It Great and How to Get There

Peter Harnik

47

(14)

The Role of Place Attachment in Sustaining Urban Parks

Robert L. Ryan

61

(14)

Respecting Nature's Design in Metropolitan Portland, Oregon

Michael C. Houck

75

(12)

Promoting Health and Fitness through Urban Design

Anne C. Lusk

87

(15)

A Metropolitan New York Biosphere Reserve?

William D. Solecki and Cynthia Rosenzweig

102

(21)

Part III Restoring Urban Nature: Projects and Process

123

(60)

Restoring Urban Ecology: The New York—New Jersey Metropolitan Area Experience

Steven E. Clemants and Steven N. Handel

127

(14)

Urban Watershed Management: The Milwaukee River Experience

Laurin N. Sievert

141

(13)

Green Futures for Industrial Brownfields

Christopher A. De Sousa

154

(15)

Ecological Citizenship: The Democratic Promise of Restoration

Andrew Light

169

(14)

Part IV A More Humane Metropolis for Whom?

183

(48)

Race, Poverty, and the Humane Metropolis

Carl Anthony

187

(10)

Fortress America: Separate and Not Equal

Edward J. Blakely

197

(9)

"The Organization Man" in the Twenty-first Century: An Urbanist View

Deborah E. Popper and Frank J. Popper

206

(14)

Sustainability Programs in the South Bronx

Thalya Parrilla

220

(11)

Part V Designing a More Humane Metropolis

231

(84)

The Smile Index

Andrew G. Wiley-Schwartz

235

(5)

Zoning Incentives to Create Public Spaces: Lessons from New York City

Jerold S. Kayden

240

(21)

Criteria for a Greener Metropolis

Mary V. Rickel Pelletier

261

(17)

Building the Right Shade of Green

Cohn M. Cathcart

278

(19)

Green Urbanism in European Cities

Timothy Beatley

297

(18)

Epilogue: Pathways to More Humane Urban Places

Rutherford H. Platt

315

(8)

About the Authors

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