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Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City Ross, Andrew (Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University, New York, NY, United States)
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Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City
Ross, Andrew (Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University, New York, NY, United States)
Phoenix, Arizona is at once one of America's fastest growing cities and its least sustainable one. A sprawling megalopolis of more than five million souls, it is parched-the result of minimal rainfall and scorching heat. Yet historically, its population has been hostile to both placing limits on growth and restricting property rights. In Bird on Fire, noted chronicler of contemporary social life Andrew Ross relies on Phoenix's to perform a paradoxicaltask: explain how we can establish sustainable urban living in this most unsustainable of cities. The vast majority of authors writing on sustainable cities focus on places like Portland, New York, and various west European cities that have excellent public transit systems and high density. Ross does theopposite, and contends that if we can't make fast-growing cities like Phoenix sustainable, then the whole movement has a major problem.
320 pages, 19 b&w halftone, 3 b&w line
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 17, 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199828265 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 312 |
| Dimensions | 166 × 237 × 28 mm · 544 g |
| Language | English |
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