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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2011]
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780199828272 019982827X 9780199828265 0199828261 1283348993 9781283348997 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 297 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Library Staff: | View instance in FOLIO |