Joan Fitzgerald is the Director of the Law, Policy and Society Program at Northeastern University and the author of Moving Up in the New Economy: Career Ladders for U.S. Workers and Economic Revitalization: Cases and Strategies for City and Suburb. She lives in Boston.

• Part I: Cities and the Green Economy


• 1.: Introduction and Overview


• 2.: Why Focus on Cities?


• 3.: What is Green Economic Development?


• Part II: Green Urban Economic Development Strategies Revealed


• 4.: Cities Turning Trash into Jobs


• 5.: Renewing Urban Economies with Renewable Energy


• 6.: Energy Efficiency and Green Building


• 7.: Mass Transit and Economic Development


• Part III. The Potential and the Policy for Creating a Green Economy


• 8.: : Jobs and Economic Development: the Evidence and the Potential


• 9.: . Cities in a National Economy