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Listening Length: 9 hours and 48 minutes
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Audible.com Release Date: November 3, 2009
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for how we got to where we are with oil dependency and global warming. His basic thesis is that dense urban cores like Manhattan that encourage mass transit and walking are inherently "greener" than other areas, even if people in other areas do all the "right" things--driving a hybrid, installing solar panels, recycling, etc. He delves into the bias in this country against urban areas going back to the founding fathers, and the automobile culture that allowed people to live further and further away from where they worked and shopped. Sprawling urban areas like Atlanta and Phoenix get just as much criticism as rural areas and suburbs, and he takes to task some of the misguided things done in the name of being green that serve to justify a lifestyle of excess consumption. There are several interesting ideas that certainly would go contrary to general opinion--large parks can actually be a hindrance to walking, non-local food may be "greener" if it can be grown more efficiently than local food, any effort to decrease traffic congestion is inherently damaging to the environment as it encourages more car use. The biggest problem with the book is there are no practical solutions to bring about more concentrated, smaller living spaces, with greater use of mass transit. He even points out that the increased gas prices of the past several years only minimally increased mass transit use, since once you got to work there was no where to go without a car. Still an interesting book that was written in a very engaging style, and will have me looking at things differently the next time I hear about the latest "green" invention.
I got this book in the mail earlier today. So far, I am really enjoying the content.But the quality of the paperback print is *extremely* cheap. This is clearly a print-to-order Amazon operation, with coloring book-quality paper, lazy formatting, cheap feeling and fragile binding, and blurry, light gray ink. It's not a physical book that I'll particularly enjoy holding or showing off on a book shelf.I would strongly urge potential buyers to just go find a used copy of an earlier (non-Amazon) print.
New York City is the most environmentally friendly city in the country. Anything we can do to make other cities more like New York City or increase density within New York City so more people will live there is an environmental win.This is the case made in Green Metropolis. It does an amazing job of making this conclusion seem obvious thus showing many flaws in mainstream environmentalist thought.
A very interesting read. Further substantiate why I am glad I don't do long commutes. This city dweller will always refuse the sprawl...
Green Metropolis is an excellent thought provoking book and vividly highlights the disconnect between what the community perceives as being "green" and what truly is. I'll give this book 5 stars but would like to mention a few shortcomings.I thought his criticisms of Central Park and Park Avenue were completely off the mark, dead wrong. One of biggest issues that, to my mind, haunts the thesis of this book is how to make dense urban living palatable and even desirable for a range of classes of people. Central Park was conceived at the very same time that New York was beginning to "experiment" with the large apartment building. Buildings such as the Dakota (1880) were designed specifically to lure well heeled city dwellers away from single family homes (townhouses) and into denser multi-story buildings with luxury space and services. (sound familiar?) Over the next 50 years many more even larger apartment buildings were built on both sides of the Park which was one of the most important ingredients in creating a DESIRABLE dense neighborhood. Far from being a built "criticism" of the dense city (as Owen may perceive it) Central Park was an enabler of density. As wonderful as Jane Jacobs' Greenwich Village of the 40's was, most "upper east side" types probably didn't want to live there then, and they certainly didn't in 1908.Similar points can be made about Park Avenue. I assume he is referring to that portion of Park Avenue above Grand Central Terminal. This urban boulevard was conceived as cure for the urban blight of the Harlem and New York Railroad tracks (it covered the tracks) as well as an armature for dense luxury apartment building development on both sides. Yes, the ground floors of those buildings may seem a bit sterile to Owen (and others including myself)but the buildings well heeled occupants probably like it that way and can find all the urban vitality they want a block away on Madison and Lexington avenues respectively. Sure, Park Avenue is an "edge" or border between two similar neighborhoods, but that's what boulevards are supposed to do in urban planning. Park Avenue isn't a "criticism" of dense cities. The tree lined boulevard is one component in a tool box for making high density possible. They help establishes scale and define precincts in large citys. They don't negatively impact density in any meaningful way. Owen seems to miss this point. Why did Owen bother to pick on these two NYC features in the first place. Didn't he already establish Manhattan as his "gold standard" in the first chapter?Owen is needlessly harsh and dismissive with Washington DC. He draws far too many erroneous conclusions from the hotel desk clerk who advises him to catch a cab for a 4 block trip. Yes, the central Mall area of DC is very vast and spread out and bereft of urban amenities. Distances are farther than they look and the buildings are by design over scaled to work in that setting. But that is just one district and its flaws are not caused by axial boulevards per se but by misapplied land use concepts contained in DC's "City Beautiful" era Beaux-Arts McMillan Plan of 1901 which created a vast central "monumental core" area of monumental structures set in gardens. Neighborhoods like Foggy Bottom (near GW) and Dupont Circle, just to name two that are outside the McMillan Plan area, are dense, walkable and contain townhouses and 5 to 10 story apartment buildings and have plenty of street amenities. As for the oft-sited building height restriction in Washington the vast majority of Manhattan apartment buildings within Greenwich Village, above 75th street and within the boroughs of the Bronx and Brooklyn, would fit within Washington DC's height restrictions. Sure, Washington as a whole hasn't reached Manhattan levels of density but it's not Phoenix either.I believe that these are but three examples of how late 19th century planners sought to make density palatable at a time when cities were even grimier and more dangerous than they are today. A close look at FL Olmstead's writings and city planning projects of the late 19th century reveals a man who actively grappled during the latter half of his life with the very same issue that haunts Green Metropolis, that is, how to get Americans to want or at least accept living in dense cities. Parker and Unwin grappled with these very same issues in England at the turn of the century.Nevertheless, I belive the fundemental thesis of this book is sound and Owen gets it out for all to see and react to with wit and conviction. While I wasn't expecting Owen to pull some sort of "blueprint" for a Manhattan-like "city of the future" out of the bag by the end of the book, I was still left wondering...OK so what do we do now? When the President is advocating both "green economy" initiatives AND $8,000 first time home buyer tax credits in "drive til you quality" suburbs in the same speech you are left wondering if anyone in the country besides Owen really sees how absurd and contradictory this. In the end, weaning Americans off the short term economic engine and emotional attachment of single family housing production and automobile oriented development may be a lot harder than weaning Afghan farmers off opium poppies.
Don't even know where to start-- Owen is brilliant, brutal, and correct.I bought this book along with several others on urban planning/studies, and found it the most thought-provoking.I actually followed up and bought 10 more paperback copies to hand out to friends/family, especially those considering relocating to the suburbs. Seriously!!!!
This book totally altered my perspective of sustainability. I love the stuff about LEED brain and greenwashing. I highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in green building or sustainable development.
A great book that breaks down the common beliefs—myths, really—of Priuses and environmental trends. Can solar power really save us? Well, maybe one day, but let's first discuss the realities of how it works today and how much (or little) it's really helping today...
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