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Bird on Fire : Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City
ISBN: 9780199828265 | 0199828261
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 11/3/2011
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Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable, 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. While most authors writing... MORE
| Acronyms | p. ix |
| Reader's Note | p. xi |
| Introduction: By the Time I Got to Phoenix | p. 3 |
| Gambling at the Water Table | p. 21 |
| The Road Runner's Appetite | p. 51 |
| The Battle for Downtown | p. 75 |
| Artists Step Up | p. 75 |
| Who Can Afford the Green City? | p. 104 |
| Living Downstream | p. 116 |
| The Sun Always Rises | p. 148 |
Andrew Ross is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. He is the author of Fast Boat to China, The Celebration Chronicles, Nice Work if You Can Get It, and No-Collar. He has written for ArtForum, The Nation, and The Village Voice.
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