Metropolitan Phoenix : : Place Making and Community Building in the Desert / / Patricia Gober.
Inhabitants of Phoenix tend to think small but live big. They feel connected to individual neighborhoods and communities but drive farther to get to work, feel the effects of the regional heat island, and depend in part for their water on snow packs in Wyoming. In Metropolitan Phoenix, Patricia Gobe...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Metropolitan Portraits
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 36 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Chapter one. Desert Urbanization
- Chapter two. Building a Desert City
- Chapter three. An Ever-Changing Social Dynamic
- Chapter four. You Can Never Get Hurt in Dirt
- Chapter five. Not Another LA!
- Chapter six. Downtown Redevelopment: A Tale of Two Cities
- Chapter seven. Thinking Small and Living Big
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments