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The future of the suburban city : lessons from sustaining Phoenix / Grady Gammage Jr.
Fine Arts Library HT168.P46 G36 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gammage, Grady, 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable urban development--Arizona--Phoenix.
- Sustainable urban development.
- Arizona--Phoenix.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 191 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Island Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- Grady Gammage Jr. is Senior Scholar at Arizona State University's Global Institute of Sustainability and Senior Fellow at ASU's Morrison Institute. He also teaches at the ASU College of Law and at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. Gammage is also a practicing lawyer, a real estate developer, and a former elected official. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Suburbs, Sprawl, and Sustainability 1
- Chapter 2 Just Add Water 23
- Chapter 3 Coping with Heat 55
- Chapter 4 Transportation and the Suburban City 75
- Chapter 5 Houses, Shopping Centers, and the Fabric of Suburbia 93
- Chapter 6 Jobs and the Economy of Cities in the Sand 125
- Chapter 7 Politics, Resilience, and Survival 153.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781610916233
- 1610916239
- OCLC:
- 948576824
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