Bird on fire : lessons from the world's least sustainable city /

Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestr...

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Main Author: Ross, Andrew, 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780199828272
019982827X
9780199828265
0199828261
1283348993
9781283348997
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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Summary:Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted property rights. In Bird on Fire, eminent social and cultural analyst Andrew Ross focuses on the prospects for sustainability in Phoenix--a city in the bull's eye of global warming--and also the obstacles that stand in the way. Most authors writing on sustainable cities look at places like Portland.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 297 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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