Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America’s Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World (Urban and Industrial Environments)

By Catherine Tumber
Tumber, who has spent much of her life in Rust Belt cities, traveled to twenty-five cities in the Northeast and Midwest–from Buffalo to Peoria to Detroit to Rochester–interviewing planners, city officials, and activists, and weaving their stories into this exploration of small-scale urbanism. The MIT Press, 2011.