What is a green city? What does it mean to say that San Francisco
or Vancouver is more " green" than Houston or Beijing? When does
urban growth lower environmental quality, and when does it yield
environmental gains? How can cities deal with the environmental
challenges posed by growth? These are the questions Matthew Kahn
takes on in this smart and engaging book. Written in a lively,
accessible style, Green Cities takes the reader on a tour of the
extensive economic literature on the environmental consequences of
urban growth. Kahn starts with an exploration of the Environmental
Kuznets Curve (EKC)the hypothesis that the relationship between
environmental quality and per capita income follows a bell-shaped
curve. He then analyzes several critiques of the EKC and discusses
the implications of growth in urban population and surface area, as
well as income. The concluding chapter addresses the role of cities
in promoting climate change and asks how cities in turn are likely
to be affected by this trend. As Kahn points out, although
economics is known as the " dismal science, " economists are often
quite optimistic about the relationship between urban development
and the environment. In contrast, many ecologists and
environmentalists remain wary of the environmental consequences of
free-market growth. Rather than try to settle this dispute, this
book conveys the excitement of an ongoing debate. Green Cities does
not provide easy answers complex dilemmas. It does something more
importantit provides the tools readers need to analyze these issues
on their own.
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