Eco-cities: Building sustainable urban communities 113bridge would also use up money that is badly needed for more necessary projects, such
as improving public transportation, renovating public buildings, and maintaining parks.
In addition, city taxpayers will end up paying higher property taxes to inance the bridge
when construction turns out to cost much more than estimated.Bibliography
Bowden, Rob, Cities (Farmington Hills, MI: KidHaven Press, 2004).
“Building a ‘Green’ City Extension” (Future Communities), http://www.futurecommunities.net/
case-studies/hammarby-sjostad-stockholm-sweden-1995-2015.
“he Development of Brazil’s City of the Future” (PBS Frontline World), http://www.pbs.org/
frontlineworld/fellows/brazil1203/master-plan.html.
he Economist Pocket World in Figures (London: Proile Books, Ltd., 2011).
Global Health Observatory, “Urban Population Growth (World Health Organization), http://
http://www.who.int/gho/urban_health/situation_trends/urban_population_growth_text/en/index
.html.
Hallsmith, Gwendolyn, he Key to Sustainable Cities: Meeting Human Needs, Transforming Com-
munity Systems (Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, 2003).
Just, Tobias, and Christian hater, “Megacities: Boundless Growth?” (Frankfurt: Deutsche Bank
Research, 2008), http://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/CIB_INTERNET_EN-PROD/PROD
0000000000222116.pdf.
“What Is an Ecocity?” (Urban Ecology Australia, Ltd.), http://www.urbanecology.org.au/eco
-cities/what-is-an-ecocity/.