Flame and Fortune in the American West: Urban Development, Environmental Change, and the Great Oakland Hills Fire Volume 1

by Gregory L. Simon

Book Overview

Flame and Fortune in the American West creatively and meticulously investigates the ongoing politics, folly, and avarice shaping the production of increasingly widespread yet dangerous suburban and exurban landscapes. The 1991 Oakland Hills Tunnel Fire is used as a starting point to better understand these complex social-environmental processes. The Tunnel Fire is the most destructive fire--in terms of structures lost--in California history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520292790
• ISBN13: 9780520292796
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"