State of the world, 2007 :  a Worldwatch Institute report on progress toward a sustainable society / 
 Our urban future : a Worldwatch Institute report on progress toward a sustainable society  Worldwatch Institute report on progress toward a sustainable society 
Molly O'Meara Sheehan, project director ; Linda Starke, editor. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  W.W. Norton & Co.,  c2007. 
 - xxxi, 250 p. :  ill., maps ;  25 cm. 
 - State of the world library. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-230) and index. 
<br/><br/>State of the world, a year in review / Lisa Mastny -- An urbanizing world / Kai N. Lee -- Timbuktu: greening the hinterlands -- Loja: ecological and healthy city -- Providing clean water and sanitation / David Satterthwaite, Gordon McGranahan -- Lagos: collapsing infrastructure -- Farming the cities / Brian Halweil, Danielle Nierenberg -- Freetown: urban farms after a war -- Greening urban transportation / Peter Newman, Jeff Kenworthy -- Los Angeles: end of sprawl -- Melbourne: reducing a city's carbon emissions -- Energizing cities /Janet L. Sawin, Kristen Hughes -- Rizhao: solar-powered city -- Malmo: building a green future -- Reducing natural disaster risk in cities / Zoe Chafe -- Jakarta: river management -- Mumbai: policing by the people -- Charting a new course for urban public health / Carolyn Stephens, Peter Stair -- Nairobi: life in Kibera -- Petra: managing tourism -- Strengthening local economies / Mark Roseland with Lena Soots -- Brno: Brownfield redevelopment -- Fighting poverty and environmental injustice in cities / Janice E. Perlman with Molly O'Meara Sheehan. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>039306557X  0393329232 9780393065572  9780393329230 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cities and towns--Growth.<br/>Urban health.         <br/>Urbanization.