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Author Ross, Andrew, 1956-

Title Bird on fire : lessons from the world's least sustainable city / Andrew Ross.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 297 pages) : illustrations, maps
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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Subject Sustainable urban development -- Arizona -- Phoenix.
Sustainable urban development.
Arizona -- Phoenix.
Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Arizona -- Phoenix.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
City planning -- Arizona -- Phoenix.
City planning.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Ross, Andrew, 1956- Bird on fire. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011 9780199828265
ISBN 9780199828272 (electronic book)
019982827X (electronic book)
9780199828265 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
0199828261 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
1283348993
9781283348997
Standard No. 9786613348999