'[David Owen] turns conventional wisdom on its head and takes a clear-eyed look at what 'green' might truly mean in a nation of three hundred million (and counting) in the twenty-first century.'
- SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
MOST AMERICANS THINK OF DENSE CITIES AS ECEOLOCIAL NIGHTMARES - wastelands of concrete, garbage, diesel fumes and traffic jams-but residents of urban cores actually consume less oil, electricity, and water than Prius- driving Vermonters do, and they have smaller carbon footprints. In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen offers an invaluable environmental template for a global population that is growing as natural resources shrink. Green Metropolis will change the way people think about the environment.
'Pugnacious and contrarian.'
- THE NEW YORK TIMES
'Owen's style here, as in his thirteen previous books, is cool, understated, and witty; it does not appear to be in his nature to be alarmist. But this is a thoroughly alarming book, perhaps all the more so because Owen is so matter-of-fact; the facts alone are so discouraging that no rhetorical flourishes are necessary to underscore their urgency.'
- THE WASHINGTON POST