Environmental City is a history of the environmental movement in
Austin--how it began; what it did; and how it promoted ideas
about the relationships between people, cities, and the
environment. It is also about a deeper movement to retain a
sense of place that is Austin, and how that deeper movement
continues to shape the way Austin is built today. As Austin grew
from a college and government town of the 1950s into the
sprawling city of 2010, the "environmental movement" in Austin
became the political and symbolic arm of a more general movement
for place. The city it helped to create is now on the forefront
of national efforts to rethink how we build our cities, reduce
global warming, and find ways that humans and the environment
can coexist in a big city. - the Place they thought of as Austin
which propelled the movement - the Political battles between
"environmentalists and developers" where ideas about that place
were fought out The Environmental City is also the policies,
programs, and people still worki