Phoenix on the Brink: How America’s Fastest-Growing Desert City Became the World’s Cautionary Tale
Phoenix, Arizona—population 1.7 million, average July temperature roughly equivalent to the surface of Mercury—has always marketed itself as the city that rose from dusty obscurity to become America’s fastest-growing desert mirage. Yet the mythic bird on the municipal seal is beginning to look less like a symbol of rebirth and more like a canary in…
