Concrete jungle : New York City and our last best hope for a sustainable future / Niles Eldredge and Sidney Horenstein.

"Cities need healthy chunks of the world's ecosystems to persist if they are to survive; yet cities, like parasites, grow and prosper by local destruction of these very ecosystems. In this absorbing and wide-ranging book, the authors use New York City as a microcosm to explore both the pos...

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