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Suburban cities have some advantages in an era of climate change, and many suburban cities are already making strides in increasing their resilience. Gammage focuses on the story of Phoenix, which shows the power of collective action — government action — to confront the challenges of geography and respond through public policy. He takes a fresh look at what it means to be sustainable and examines issues facing most suburban cities around water supply, heat, transportation, housing, density, urban form, jobs, economics, and politics.

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For high-carbon American desert cities facing down the fierce impact of climate change, the challenges seem insurmountable, and yet they continue to grow. As a seasoned urban advocate and real estate attorney, Gammage is uniquely positioned to tell us how a thirsty Western giant like Phoenix can become a resilient metropolis in the ever hotter and drier years to come. --Andrew Ross author of Bird on Fire

Gammage is one of the few observers of the urban scene that really gets suburban cities. Unlike so many others who negatively judge and chastise suburban cities in the Southwest, Gammage seeks to understand these places on their own terms. This book greatly advances our knowledge of how these places work and shows how suburban cities proved far more resilient and sustainable than critics had expected. --Robert E. Lang, Executive Director, Brookings Mountain West/The Lincy Institute Professor of Urban Affairs, UNLV Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

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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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