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The Future of the Suburban City. Lessons from Sustaining Phoenix.
Grady Gammage
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Paperback. In The Future of the Suburban City, Phoenix native Grady Gammage, Jr. looks at the promise of the suburban city as well as the challenges. He argues that places that grew up based on the automobile and the single-family home need to dramatically change and evolve. Num Pages: 192 pages, 15 photographs and 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSG; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 227 x 12. Weight in Grams: 284.
There exists a category of America n cities in which the line between suburban and urban is almost impossible to locate. These suburban cities arose in the last half of twentieth-century America, based largely on the success of the single-family home, shopping centres, and the automobile. The low-density, auto-centric development of suburban cities, which are largely in the arid West, presents challenges for urban sustainability as it is traditionally measured. Yet, some of these cities, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Salt Lake, Dallas, Tucson, San Bernardino, and San Diego, continue to be among the fastest growing places in the United ... Read more
There exists a category of America n cities in which the line between suburban and urban is almost impossible to locate. These suburban cities arose in the last half of twentieth-century America, based largely on the success of the single-family home, shopping centres, and the automobile. The low-density, auto-centric development of suburban cities, which are largely in the arid West, presents challenges for urban sustainability as it is traditionally measured. Yet, some of these cities, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Salt Lake, Dallas, Tucson, San Bernardino, and San Diego, continue to be among the fastest growing places in the United ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Island Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9781610916233
SKU
V9781610916233
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99-15
About Grady Gammage
Grady Gammage is a 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.
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