Philip VanderMeer

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Philip VanderMeer is associate professor of history at Arizona State University. He is also the author of Phoenix Rising: The Making of a Desert Metropolis.

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Books by Philip VanderMeer

Desert Visions and the Making of Phoenix, 1860-2009

By Philip VanderMeer

Whether touted for its burgeoning economy, affordable housing, and pleasant living style, or criticized for being less like a city than a sprawling suburb, Phoenix, by all environmental logic, should not exist. Yet despite its extremely hot and dry climate and its remoteness, Phoenix has grown in...

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