Phoenix, Arizona, is one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas
in the United States. 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 become a nightmare.
In this provocative book, Janine Schipper examines the cultural
forces that contribute to suburban sprawl in the United States.
Focusing on the Phoenix area, she examines sustainable development
in Cave Creek, various 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 relating to the land. For anyone seeking to
understand 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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