community, shading strategies, sustainability, urban forest
Developing a Tree Fund is Crucial to the Future of Phoenix’s Urban Forest
Today’s post is the fifth installment of the Wednesday Phoenix Tree and Shade Masterplan Series. Today’s installment is about the second step outlined to implement the Masterplan – Preserve, Protect and Increase. As you might recall, Raising Awareness was the first step which I discussed two weeks ago. The final step is Sustainable and Maintainable [...]
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Mayor Gordon on his Legacy to Phoenix
This morning, I had the honor of sitting down with City of Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon and asking him a few questions about future urban development and sustainability. I had asked readers to send me questions to ask the Mayor and I got many really good ones. Unfortunately, the Mayor’s morning was a particularly busy [...]
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10 Things You Should Know about the Upcoming Parking Lot at the Sahara Hotel
1. The City used funds from the Downtown Phoenix Hotel Corporation to buy the Sahara building. Apparently part of this deal was the temporary use of the site as a parking lot for the Sheraton Hotel. This is the “done deal” City Manager David Cavazos was talking about. 2. When several community members suggested the [...]
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Planting the Right Tree in the Right Place and Other Keys to a Healthy Urban Forest
Last week, in the third installment of the series on the Tree and Shade Masterplan, I promised to talk about steps 2 and 3 in the implementation of the plan. But I’ll talk about those things next Wednesday and this is why: just a few hours ago I had lunch with the authors of the [...]
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Plans for the First Bicycle Boulevard in Phoenix
Today is a continuation of yesterday’s post featuring an interview with Kerry Wilcoxon, the Traffic Engineer in charge of Safety in Neighborhood Traffic and Joe Perez, the Bicycle Coordinator at the City of Phoenix. Yesterday’s post was about why Phoenix is so auto-centric and how the Light Rail has effected the urban landscape for bicyclists [...]
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City Traffic Engineers Agree Phoenix is Not a Bike-Friendly Community
I had the pleasure of speaking with Kerry Wilcoxon, the Traffic Engineer in charge of Safety in Neighborhood Traffic and Joe Perez, the Bicycle Coordinator at the City of Phoenix a week and a half ago at Giant Coffee. I asked them why we don’t have the necessary bike infrastructure in place to make biking [...]
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Raising Awareness is a Key First Step towards Restoring the Urban Forest in Phoenix
This is the third installment of a month-long Wednesday series on The Phoenix Tree and Shade Master Plan. Part I was all about what an urban forest is and Part II, last Wednesday, was about the multiple benefits of a healthy urban forest. Today I’m going to talk about the first step that the Master [...]
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Biking Leads to Leaner People and Leaner Cities
Today’s post is by Willard Williams Jr. (aka Beau), who used to work with me at an architecture firm in Phoenix and who is now a designer for a residential architect in San Francisco. Beau has more than six years of hands on experience with complex design tools, such as Building Information Modeling (BIM), expertise [...]
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Downtown ASU Students are the Accidental Urban Pioneers
Today I gave a presentation at the Barrett Urban Experience, a 4-day intensive introduction to the downtown Phoenix urban environment for Barrett Honors College freshmen, a brainchild of Nan Ellin. Overall, the program is very well designed, including a public art tour, a trip to the Downtown Public Market, a discussion about community food by [...]
Continue Reading- Developing a Tree Fund is Crucial to the Future of Phoenix’s Urban Forest
- Mayor Gordon on his Legacy to Phoenix
- 10 Things You Should Know about the Upcoming Parking Lot at the Sahara Hotel
- Planting the Right Tree in the Right Place and Other Keys to a Healthy Urban Forest
- Plans for the First Bicycle Boulevard in Phoenix
- City Traffic Engineers Agree Phoenix is Not a Bike-Friendly Community
- Raising Awareness is a Key First Step towards Restoring the Urban Forest in Phoenix
- Biking Leads to Leaner People and Leaner Cities
- Downtown ASU Students are the Accidental Urban Pioneers
- Trees Improve Social Connections, Who Knew?
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