Bird on fire : lessons from the world's least sustainable city / Andrew Ross.

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 unrestr...

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Main Author: Ross, Andrew, 1956- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
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