Competing urban greening agendas

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dc.contributor.advisorMueller, Elizabeth J.
dc.contributor.advisorDooling, Sarah
dc.creatorFlynn, Colleen Francesen
dc.date.accessioned2013-11-21T20:04:43Zen
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-11T22:38:25Z
dc.date.available2013-11-21T20:04:43Zen
dc.date.available2017-05-11T22:38:25Z
dc.date.issued2009-05en
dc.descriptiontexten
dc.description.abstractUrban greening has evolved into a diverse set of strategies based on community organizing and policy change to help create healthy communities. Currently, there are competing urban greening agendas and barriers to coalition building that prohibit urban greening projects and policies from reaching their maximum potential. Greening projects take the collective effort of residents, city government, nonprofits, community-based organizations and a range of technical experts. To move the agenda forward there is a need to create a framework around health and build community-based health coalitions. A healthy community framework taps into universal concerns and the need to build sustainable communities. In order to move forward we need collective action, coalition building and grassroots organizing in conjunction with economics, science, policy, planning, design and law.en
dc.description.departmentCommunity and Regional Planningen
dc.format.mediumelectronicen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/22361en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.en
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dc.subjectUrban greeningen
dc.subjectSustainable communitiesen
dc.subjectUrban planningen
dc.subjectCommunity healthen
dc.titleCompeting urban greening agendasen
dc.typeThesisen

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