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Bird on Fire Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City

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ISBN-10: 0199975523

ISBN-13: 9780199975525

Edition: 2013

Authors: Andrew Ross

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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.InBird 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, Seattle, and New York that have excellent public transit systems and relatively high density. But…    
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Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.84" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Andrew Ross is Professor of American Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including No-Collar, Fast Boat to China, No Respect, Strange Weather, and, from NYU Press, Anti-Americanism and Real Love.

Acronyms
Reader's Note
Introduction: By the Time I Got to Phoenix
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
Notes
Index