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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]
Subjects:
Sustainable urban development > Arizona > Phoenix.
Urban ecology (Sociology) > Arizona > Phoenix.
City planning > Arizona > Phoenix.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780199828272
019982827X
9780199828265
0199828261
1283348993
9781283348997
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Gambling at the water table
  • The road runner's appetite
  • The battle for downtown. Artists step up ; Who can afford the Green City?
  • Living downstream
  • The sun always rises
  • Viva los suns
  • Land for the free
  • Delivering the good.

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