Green Cities: Urban Environmental Solutions
- ISBN-10
- 1428967338
- ISBN-13
- 9781428967335
- Series
- Green Cities
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- DIANE Publishing
Description
global issues An Electronic Journal of the U.S. Department of State March 2000 Volume 5, Number 1 table of contents Green Cities: Urban Environmental Solutions focus Healthy Cities: Urban Environmental Solutions ...
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- 2007-04-01
- 160 pages
- Ebook
- Brookings Institution Press
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