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Disappearing Desert: The Growth of Phoenix and the Culture of Sprawl

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Phoenix, Arizona, is likely one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the USA. The city’s expansion—at the rate of one acre per hour—comes at the expense of its Sonoran Desert environment. For some residents, the American Dream has change into a nightmare.

In this provocative book, Janine Schipper examines the cultural forces that give a contribution to suburban sprawl in the USA. Specializing in the Phoenix area, she examines sustainable development in Cave Creek, more than a few master-planned suburbs, and the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Reservation to explore suburbanization and ecological destruction. She also explains why sprawl continues despite the heavy toll it takes on the environment.

Schipper gives voice to community members who have experienced the pressures of sprawl and questioned fundamental assumptions that sustain it. She presents the perspectives of the many players in the sprawl debate—from developers and politicians to environmentalists and property-rights advocates—not merely to document the phenomenon but also to reveal how seemingly natural ways of thinking about the land are influenced by cultural forces that range from notions of a “rational society” to the marketing of the American Dream.

Disappearing Desert speaks to land-use dilemmas nationwide and shows that curtailing suburban development requires both policy shifts and new ways of when it comes to the land. For someone in the hunt for to remember the cultural basis for rampant development, this book uncovers the forces that drive sprawl and searches for solutions to its seeming inevitability.

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