Gambling at the water table -- The road runner's appetite -- The battle for downtown. Artists step up ; Who can afford the Green City? -- Living downstream -- The sun always rises -- Viva los suns -- Land for the free -- Delivering the good
Summary
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
