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

by Andrew Ross

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199828261
• ISBN13: 9780199828265
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"