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Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City by Ross, Andrew
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- PublicationDate
- 03-Nov-11
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- Book Title
- Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City
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- 148Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropoli
- BookTitle
- Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City
- UPC
- 9780199828265
- ISBN
- 9780199828265
- EAN
- 9780199828265
- Subject Area
- Urban Planning, Human Biology
- Publication Name
- Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City
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- Oxford University Press Inc
- Subject
- Geography & Geosciences
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 235mm
- Item Width
- 163mm
- Item Weight
- 542g
- Number of Pages
- 312 Pages
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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. 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, Seattle, and New York that have excellent public transit systems and relatively high density. But Ross contends that if we can't change the game in fast-growing, low-density cities like Phoenix, the whole movement has a major problem. Drawing on interviews with 200 influential residents--from state legislators, urban planners, developers, and green business advocates to civil rights champions, energy lobbyists, solar entrepreneurs, and community activists--Ross argues that if Phoenix is ever to become sustainable, it will occur more through political and social change than through technological fixes. Ross explains how Arizona's increasingly xenophobic immigration laws, science-denying legislature, and growth-at-all-costs business ethic have perpetuated social injustice and environmental degradation. But he also highlights the positive changes happening in Phoenix, in particular the Gila River Indian Community's successful struggle to win back its water rights, potentially shifting resources away from new housing developments to producing healthy local food for the people of the Phoenix Basin. Ross argues that this victory may serve as a new model for how green democracy can work, redressing the claims of those who have been aggrieved in a way that creates long-term benefits for all. Bird on Fire offers a compelling take on one of the pressing issues of our time--finding pathways to sustainability at a time when governments are dismally failing their responsibility to address climate change.
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Urban Planning, Human Biology
Publication Name
Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City
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Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Geography & Geosciences
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
312 Pages
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235mm
Item Width
163mm
Item Weight
542g
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