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How Cities Became Heroes of the Environment

December 15, 2015 by Debbie Hamrick

It wasn’t long ago that urban life was seen as antithetical to nature.
The environmental advances that have taken place in cities are remarkable for many reasons, but I want to talk about just one of them: Up until quite recently, cities were villains of the environment. How did people get to this point, intellectually speaking, where cities are now environmental saviors? by Laura Bliss on The Atlantic’s City Lab (12/11/15)

http://www.citylab.com/cityfixer/2015/12/how-cities-became-heroes-of-the-environment/419712/?utm_source=nl__link3_121115

Filed Under: Green infrastructure Tagged With: Ecosystem services, Green cities

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