Introduction -- Measuring urban environmental quality -- The urban environmental Kuznets curve -- Income growth and the urban environment: -- The role of the market -- Income growth and greener governance -- Population growth and the urban environment -- Spatial growth: the environmental cost of...

Introduction -- How motor vehicles take over cities -- The costs of sprawl -- Three cities that chose livability over sprawl -- Linking transportation and land use policies -- Erasing the incentives to sprawl -- Restructuring government institutions -- Creating constituencies for change --...