The Future of the Suburban City: Lessons from Sustaining Phoenix

by Grady Gammage

Book Overview

There exists a category of American cities in which the line between suburban and urban is almost impossible to locate. These suburban cities arose in the last half of twentieth-century America, based largely on the success of the single-family home, shopping centers, and the automobile. The low-density, auto-centric development of suburban cities, which are largely in the arid West, presents challenges for urban sustainability as it is traditionally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610916239
• ISBN13: 9781610916233
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"