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Flame and Fortune in the American West: Urban Development, Environmental Change, and the Great Oakland Hills Fire
Gregory L. Simon
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Description for Flame and Fortune in the American West: Urban Development, Environmental Change, and the Great Oakland Hills Fire
Paperback. Investigates the ongoing politics, folly, and avarice shaping the production of increasingly widespread yet dangerous suburban and exurban landscapes. In this book, the 1991 Oakland Hills Tunnel Fire is used as a starting point to better understand these complex social-environmental processes. Series: Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics. Num Pages: 272 pages, 37 b/w images. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; JFSG; RND; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
Flame and Fortune in the American West creatively and meticulously investigates the ongoing politics, folly, and avarice shaping the production of increasingly widespread yet dangerous suburban and exurban landscapes. The 1991 Oakland Hills Tunnel Fire is used as a starting point to better understand these complex social-environmental processes. The Tunnel Fire is the most destructive fire-in terms of structures lost-in California history. More than 3,000 residential structures burned and 25 lives were lost. Although this fire occurred in Oakland and Berkeley, others like it sear through landscapes in California and the American West that have experienced urban growth and development ... Read more
Flame and Fortune in the American West creatively and meticulously investigates the ongoing politics, folly, and avarice shaping the production of increasingly widespread yet dangerous suburban and exurban landscapes. The 1991 Oakland Hills Tunnel Fire is used as a starting point to better understand these complex social-environmental processes. The Tunnel Fire is the most destructive fire-in terms of structures lost-in California history. More than 3,000 residential structures burned and 25 lives were lost. Although this fire occurred in Oakland and Berkeley, others like it sear through landscapes in California and the American West that have experienced urban growth and development ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics
Condition
New
Weight
379g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520292796
SKU
V9780520292796
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About Gregory L. Simon
Gregory L. Simon is Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Denver and coeditor of Cities, Nature, and Development: The Politics and Production of Urban Vulnerabilities. He has been a core advisor to the United Nations Foundation and is a National Science Foundation grant award winner. He has recently served as a visiting scholar at ... Read more
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