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Making Sense of Place Film Series A documentary film and educational outreach project launched by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Portland: Quest for the Livable City
Cleveland: Confronting Decline in an American City
Phoenix: The Urban Desert About the Film About the Film's Themes A Sense of Place - Planning and Making Communities Urban Development and Central City Revitalization Desert Environment and Preservation Regional Planning Water and Growth State Trust Land Tribal Land Planning and Development Immigration and Economic Development Traffic Congestion and Development Patterns Designing Phoenix's Future Lessons for Middle and High School Classrooms Maps Current Viewing Opportunities and Related Events Community Outreach Internet Resources Related News Articles Order Phoenix: The Urban Desert on VHS or DVD FAQ Contact Us
The film series, a collaboration of the Lincoln Institute and Northern Light Productions, is airing on public television stations across the country. For a list of dates and times, click here.

Making Sense of Place – Phoenix: The Urban Desert

Designing Phoenix's Future

Quotes From the Film | Lincoln Institute Publications

Quotes From the Film

"If I had a magic wand. . .that would be an entire region with an open-space network that was designed, designed as carefully as the sewer system, or the street system, or any building. It would be a connective tissue. It wouldn't just be that we bought this chunk, or we bought that chunk, or somebody hadn't used this piece of land. We would design it."
 --Vern Swaback, Architect

"This area won't be developing for 20 years perhaps. But we're already planning the preserves and the interface with the neighborhoods that aren't here yet, with the hope of making that desert community, instead of just repeating that pattern development."
 --James Burke, Deputy Director City of Phoenix Parks and Recreation


Lincoln Institute Publications

Regional Growth…Local Reaction
Author(s): Glickfeld, Madelyn and Ned Levine
Publication Date: February 1992


Smart Growth
Author(s): Szold, Terry S. and Armando Carbonell
Publication Date: June 2002


The Story of Land
Author(s): Powelson, John P.
Publication Date: May 1998


Urban-Suburban Interdependencies
Editor(s): Greenstein, Rosalind and Wim Wiewel
Publication Date: March 2000


Alternatives to Sprawl
Author(s): Young, Dwight
Publication Date: December 1995


Identifying the Real Costs and Benefits of Sports Facilities
Editor(s): Chapin, Tim
Publication Date: December 2002


Managing Urban Sprawl
Author(s): Irwin, Elena G. and Nancy E. Bockstael
Publication Date: July 2002


Model Houses for the Millions
Author(s): Hayden, Dolores
Publication Date: November 2000


National Experts Convene at Cornell on the Thinning Metropolis
Editor(s): Pendall, Rolf
Publication Date: September 2000


Natural Cities
Author(s): Lord, Charles P., Eric G. Strauss and Aaron M. Toffler
Publication Date: April 2002


Public Spaces in Metropolitan Context
Author(s): Forsyth, Ann
Publication Date: November 1998


The Case of the Disappearing City
Editor(s): Lentnek, Barry, Alex Anas and Jean-Claude Thill
Publication Date: April 2002


The Debate Over Future Density of Development
Author(s): Myers, Dowell and Alicia Kitsuse
Publication Date: January 1999


The Rural Landscape as Urban Amenity
Author(s): Harvey, Thomas and Martha Works
Publication Date: April 2002


Visualizing Density A
Author(s): Campoli, Julie and Alex S. MacLean
Publication Date: December 2002


Why Do We Have Urban Density Controls?
Author(s): Mills, Edwin S.
Publication Date: July 2002


Land Use Planning and Growth Management in the American West
Author(s): ): McKinney, Matthew and Will Harmon
Publication Date: January 2002


Greater Phoenix 2100: Knowledge Capital, Social Capital, Natural Capital
Author(s): Steiner, Frederick
Publication Date: September 2001


Reaching Out to Community Planners
Publication Date: May 1997

Does Planning Matter? Visual Examination of Urban Development Events
Author(s): Ding, Chengri, Lewis Hopkins and Gerrit Knaap
Publication Date: January 1997


The New Urbanism Challenges Conventional Planning
Author(s): Fulton, William
Publication Date: September 1996


Imagining Cityscapes: The Politics of Urban Development
Author(s): Bowman, Ann O'M. and Michael A. Pagano
Publication Date: March 1996


Land Use in America: Past Experience and Future Goals
Author(s): LeRoyer, Ann
Publication Date: March 1996




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