Where To Live In Phoenix And The Valley Of The Sun
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Author | : Nexzus Publishing |
Publisher | : Nexzus Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006-03 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : 9780977700509 |
Profiles each city and major neighborhood in the Phoenix, Arizona area for prospective home buyers, with information on real estate and house prices, schools, shopping, dining, and more.
Author | : Wide World of Maps, Incorporated |
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Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781887749084 |
Author | : Wide World of Maps, Inc |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 77 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Phoenix Metropolitan Area (Ariz.) |
ISBN | : 9780938448228 |
Author | : Michelle Burgess |
Publisher | : Double B Publications |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780929526430 |
A timeless, user-friendly guide to family attractions in the Phoenix area. Includes parent resources, groups and classes, hot links and safety tips.
Author | : Phoenix Mapping Service |
Publisher | : Phoenix Mapping Service |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : Phoenix Metropolitan Area (Ariz.) |
ISBN | : 9780938448952 |
Author | : Patricia Gober |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2013-02-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0812205820 |
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 Gober explores the efforts to build a sustainable desert city in the face of environmental uncertainty, rapid growth, and increasing social diversity. Metropolitan Phoenix chronicles the burgeoning of this desert community, including the audacious decisions that created a metropolis of 3.6 million people in a harsh and demanding physical setting. From the prehistoric Hohokam, who constructed a thousand miles of irrigation canals, to the Euro-American farmers, who converted the dryland river valley into an agricultural paradise at the end of the nineteenth century, Gober stresses the sense of beginning again and building anew that has been deeply embedded in wave after wave of human migration to the region. In the early twentieth century, the so-called health seekers—asthmatics, arthritis and tuberculosis sufferers—arrived with the hope of leading more vigorous lives in the warm desert climate, while the postwar period drew veterans and their families to the region to work in emerging electronics and defense industries. Most recently, a new generation of elderly, seeking "active retirement," has settled into planned retirement communities on the perimeter of the city. Metropolitan Phoenix also tackles the future of the city. The passage of a recent transportation initiative, efforts to create a biotechnology incubator, and growing publicity about water shortages and school funding have placed Phoenix at a crossroads, forcing its citizens to grapple with the issues of social equity, environmental quality, and economic security. Gober argues that given Phoenix's dramatic population growth and enormous capacity for change, it can become a prototype for twenty-first-century urbanization, reconnecting with its desert setting and building a multifaceted sense of identity that encompasses the entire metropolitan community.
Author | : Andrew Needham |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2016-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691173540 |
How high energy consumption transformed postwar Phoenix and deepened inequalities in the American Southwest In 1940, Phoenix was a small, agricultural city of sixty-five thousand, and the Navajo Reservation was an open landscape of scattered sheepherders. Forty years later, Phoenix had blossomed into a metropolis of 1.5 million people and the territory of the Navajo Nation was home to two of the largest strip mines in the world. Five coal-burning power plants surrounded the reservation, generating electricity for export to Phoenix, Los Angeles, and other cities. Exploring the postwar developments of these two very different landscapes, Power Lines tells the story of the far-reaching environmental and social inequalities of metropolitan growth, and the roots of the contemporary coal-fueled climate change crisis. Andrew Needham explains how inexpensive electricity became a requirement for modern life in Phoenix—driving assembly lines and cooling the oppressive heat. Navajo officials initially hoped energy development would improve their lands too, but as ash piles marked their landscape, air pollution filled the skies, and almost half of Navajo households remained without electricity, many Navajos came to view power lines as a sign of their subordination in the Southwest. Drawing together urban, environmental, and American Indian history, Needham demonstrates how power lines created unequal connections between distant landscapes and how environmental changes associated with suburbanization reached far beyond the metropolitan frontier. Needham also offers a new account of postwar inequality, arguing that residents of the metropolitan periphery suffered similar patterns of marginalization as those faced in America's inner cities. Telling how coal from Indian lands became the fuel of modernity in the Southwest, Power Lines explores the dramatic effects that this energy system has had on the people and environment of the region.
Author | : Phoenix Mapping Service |
Publisher | : Phoenix Mapping Service |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Phoenix Metropolitan Area (Ariz.) |
ISBN | : 9781887749565 |
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Release | : 19?? |
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Author | : Phoenix Mapping Service Staff |
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Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1999-04-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781887749176 |