With Green Metropolis, New Yorker staff writer David Owen roughs up the American environmental movement’s most sacred cows (including the grass-fed ones). The book expands on a 2004 article Owen wrote for the New Yorker, called “Green Manhattan,” and in the longer work New York City remains his frame of reference. Eco-friendly suburbanites and small-town residents are only kidding themselves, he argues, as long as they live in sparsely settled, spaciously appointed, auto-dependent communities. If they really want to reduce their carbon footprint in any significant way, they should live in densely-settled, pedestrian-friendly, public-transit-oriented cities like New York.
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Catherine Tumber |
- About Me:
- Catherine Tumber is writing a book for the MIT Press on the promise of America's small-to-midsize older industrial cities in a low-carbon future, which expands on an essay she wrote for the Boston Review titled, "Small Green, and Good." She is currently a research affiliate with the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning's Community Innovators Lab. Catherine is the author of American Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002) and co-editor with Walter Earl Fluker of A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religion and Public Life (Boston: Beacon Press, 1998). She has a doctorate in U.S. history from the University of Rochester, and has worked as an editor for the Boston Phoenix and the Boston Review. Her essays and reviews have appeared in both publications as well as in Book Forum, the Washington Post, In These Times, and Commonweal, among others. Her review of Green Metropolis will appear in the next issue of the Wilson Quarterly.
- About Me:
- Catherine Tumber is writing a book for the MIT Press on the promise of America's small-to-midsize older industrial cities in a low-carbon future, which expands on an essay she wrote for the Boston Review titled, "Small Green, and Good." She is currently a research affiliate with the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning's Community Innovators Lab. Catherine is the author of American Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002) and co-editor with Walter Earl Fluker of A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religion and Public Life (Boston: Beacon Press, 1998). She has a doctorate in U.S. history from the University of Rochester, and has worked as an editor for the Boston Phoenix and the Boston Review. Her essays and reviews have appeared in both publications as well as in Book Forum, the Washington Post, In These Times, and Commonweal, among others. Her review of Green Metropolis will appear in the next issue of the Wilson Quarterly.
FDL Book Salon Welcomes David Owen, Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability |
| By: Catherine Tumber Saturday November 21, 2009 2:00 pm |
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