Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Maps
1 Moving Forward Together: An Introduction
2 The Global Goods Movement System
3 Breathing Air
4 Water for the City
5 The Food Environment
6 Transportation in the City
7 Spaces of the City
8 Social Movements and Policy Change
Bibliography
Index
Urban and Industrial Environments

List of Tables

Table 1.1 Top 10 container ports of the world, 2001 and 2015
Table 4.1 Sources of Water Supply to the Metropolitan Water District Service Area, 1976–2015

List of Illustrations

Figure 1.1 Veronica Booth at the Moving Forward Together conference, October 23, 2010. Source: THE Impact Project.
Figure 1.2 Simon Ng hosting a meeting with representatives from the shipping industry and the Hong Kong government, July 2013. Source: Civic Exchange.
Figure 2.1 Cranes and containers at the Port of Los Angeles. Source: THE Impact Project.
Figure 2.2 Hong Kong’s Kwai Chung Container Terminals with residential buildings in the background. Source: Civic Exchange.
Figure 2.3 Trucks leaving the Port of Los Angeles across from a neighboring park. Source: UEPI.
Figure 2.4 Line of trucks along a main boulevard in the city of Commerce. Source: East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice.
Figure 2.5 Fair Winds Charter. Source: Civic Exchange.
Figure 3.1 Smog-A-Tears demonstration, 1954. Source: Los Angeles Times (Common Use).
Figure 3.2 Optimists Club meeting, 1954. Source: Common Use.
Figure 3.3 Actor Daniel Wu promoting “fresh air.” Source: Clean Air Network.
Figure 3.4 Chinese businessman Chen Guangbiao (center) gives cans of fresh air produced by his factory to passersby for free in a financial district in Beijing. Source: Mark Wong/EPA /LANDOV.
Figure 3.5 Improved air quality in Los Angeles: concentration of PM_2.5. Gauderman et al., 2015. Source: Wendy Gutschow.
Figure 3.6 Improved air quality in Los Angeles: concentration of NO_2. Gauderman et al., 2015. Source: Wendy Gutschow.
Figure 3.7 Number of hazy days per month in Hong Kong, 1977–2004. Source: Alexis Lau, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Figure 3.8 Sulfur dioxide levels dropped sharply in Kwai Chung (an industrial district) after fuel restriction regulation became effective starting July 1, 1990. Source: Simon Ng.
Figure 4.1 Garbage blocking water flow, Huidong County, Guangdong Province. Source: Civic Exchange.
Figure 4.2 Los Angeles River kayak expedition. Source: Joe Linton.
Figure 4.3 Los Angeles region watersheds. Source: Council for Watershed Health.
Figure 4.4 Metropolitan Water District of Southern California service area. Source: Courtesy of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.
Figure 5.1 Farm to preschool program: preschoolers from Taylor Family Childcare in South Los Angeles. Source: Emily Hart.
Figure 5.2 Growth of Farm to School in the United States (1997–2014). Source: National Farm to School Network.
Figure 5.3 Tai Po CSA volunteers; Li Kai Kuen is in front. Source: Marjorie Pearson.
Figure 6.1 Tunnels of Agony. Source: Simon Ng.
Figure 6.2 A view from Central, Hong Kong. Source: Simon Ng.
Figure 6.3 Competition for road use, Nanjing, China. Source: Simon Ng.
Figure 6.4 Hourly concentrations of nitrogen dioxide at Central roadside air quality monitoring station, August to November 2014. Source: Hong Kong EPD.
Figure 6.5 ArroyoFest, June 2003. Source: Virginia Renner, UEPI.
Figure 6.6 CicLAvia ride, October 10, 2010. Source: CicLAvia.
Figure 7.1 Des Voeux Road Central: before and after, a photomontage. Source: Hong Kong Institute of Planners.
Figure 8.1 Angelo Logan. Source: East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice.
Figure 8.2 Christine Loh. Source: Civic Exchange.
Figure 8.3 Xiao Liangzhong. Source: Chen Meiqun.

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