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EBOOK Bird on Fire:Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199828272
EAN: 46EFCC69EB
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Stron: 312
Data wydania: 2011
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Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City
Phoenix, Arizona is at once one of America's fastest growing cities and its least        sustainable one. A sprawling megalopolis of more than five million souls, it is        parched-the result of minimal rainfall and scorching heat. Yet historically, its        population has been hostile to both placing limits on growth and restricting        property rights. In Bird on Fire, noted chronicler of contemporary social life        Andrew Ross relies on Phoenix's to perform a paradoxical task: explain how we can        establish sustainable urban living in this most unsustainable of cities. The vast        majority of authors writing on sustainable cities focus on places like Portland, New        York, and various west European cities that have excellent public transit systems        and high density. Ross does the opposite, and contends that if we can't make        fast-growing cities like Phoenix sustainable, then the whole movement is has a major        problem.In the course of tracing how it grew and explaining why it is so        unsustainable, he considers how it might become sustainable. He contends that if        Phoenix is to achieve this goal, it will occur primarily through political and        social change--greater civic engagement, democratic inclusion, and socially just        policies--rather than through technological fixes. Technological fixes are not        unimportant, but for them to work we first must rearrange our social and political        arrangements. In sum, Bird on Fire provides a truly fascinating window into one of        the pressing social issues of our time--finding pathways to sustainability in an era        of increasing energy consumption and sprawl.

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