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Author Gober, Patricia, author.

Title Metropolitan Phoenix : place making and community building in the desert / Patricia Gober ; maps by Barbara Trapido-Lurie
Published Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (x, 233 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Metropolitan Portraits
Metropolitan portraits.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; 1 Desert Urbanization; 2 Building a Desert City; 3 An Ever-Changing Social Dynamic; 4 You Can Never Get Hurt in Dirt; 5 Not Another LA!; 6 Downtown Redevelopment: A Tale of Two Cities; 7 Thinking Small and Living Big; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Acknowledgments
Summary Metropolitan Phoenix explores the efforts to build a sustainable desert city in the face of environmental uncertainty, rapid growth, and increasing social diversity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-224) and index
Notes In English
Subject Community development, Urban -- Arizona -- Phoenix
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
Community development, Urban.
Economic history.
Social conditions
Wirtschaft
Wüste
Verstädterung
Sozialgeschichte
SUBJECT Phoenix Metropolitan Area (Ariz.) -- Social conditions
Phoenix Metropolitan Area (Ariz.) -- Economic conditions
Phoenix (Ariz.) -- History
Subject Arizona -- Phoenix.
Arizona -- Phoenix Metropolitan Area.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Trapido-Lurie, Barbara
LC no. 2005047161
ISBN 9780812205824
0812205820