Making Sense of Place Film Series A documentary film and educational outreach project launched by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Phoenix: The Urban Desert
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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
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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
Immigration and Economic Development
| Quotes From the Film | Lincoln Institute Publications |
Quotes From the Film
"We're part of what makes this community, you know, work from day to day. We're part of the economic engine, you know, that allows us to prosper. If you were to take away the whole Latino work force, this community would just stop to a halt. There wouldn't be the services; the infrastructure would basically be eliminated.""As we speak here today, there are thousands of people who are coming here with the same dreams, with the same ambitions. And those folks change this place and change the values and the direction of this place. And it's still a city that's in its adolescence and it's going through huge growing pains." Lincoln Institute Publications Metropolitics Author(s): Orfield, Myron Publication Date: January 1997 Regional Growth…Local Reaction Author(s): Glickfeld, Madelyn and Ned Levine Publication Date: February 1992 Managing Land As Ecosystem and Economy Editor(s): Ingerson, Alice E. Publication Date: November 1995 The Influence of Local Fiscal Structure and Growth Control Choices on "Big Box" Urban Sprawl in the American West Author(s): Wassmer, Robert W. Publication Date: 2002 New Book Examines the Impacts of Metropolitan Job Sprawl Publication Date: September 2000 |
"We're part of what makes this community, you know, work from day to day. We're part of the economic engine, you know, that allows us to prosper. If you were to take away the whole Latino work force, this community would just stop to a halt. There wouldn't be the services; the infrastructure would basically be eliminated."