Green Metropolis Why Living Smaller Living Closer and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability by David Owen

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 New York. Most Americans think of crowded cities as ecological nightmares as wastelands of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic jams. Yet residents of compact urban centers Owen shows individually consume less oil electricity and water than other Americans. They live in smaller spaces d