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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

Urban Development and Central City Revitalization

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Quotes From the Film

"The best thing a neighborhood can do to get their ideas, concerns, and issues on the table - is that they have to organize. There has to be a body, there has to be a unified voice; there has to be the crowd. And many of them, believe it, have been very effective in the city of Phoenix."
 --Jim Hansen, Planner, City of Phoenix

"Nobody wanted to develop in this area. When the city of Phoenix declared this a developing neighborhood, a development area, and developed . . . and implemented an infill program to entice contractors to come down here to build, then this area, this neighborhood took off."
 --Al Knox, Community Excellence Project


Lincoln Institute Publications

Rethinking the Development Experience
Editor(s): Rodwin, Lloyd and Donald Schon
Publication Date: January 1995


Special Districts
Author(s): Babcock, Richard F. and Wendy U. Larsen
Publication Date: May 1993


The Value of Land
Editor(s): Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Publication Date: July 1998


The New Urbanism
Author(s): Fulton, William
Publication Date: November 1996


Abandoned Housing
Editor(s): Cohen, James R.
Publication Date: September 2000


Efficient Urbanization
Author(s): Cervero, Robert
Publication Date: December 2000


Environmental Amenities, Urban Sprawl, and the Economic Landscape
Author(s): Wu, JunJie
Publication Date: July 2002


Historic Preservation and Neighborhood Change
Author(s): Coulson, N. Edward and Robin M. Leichenko
Publication Date: July 2002


Housing Subsidies and Urban Segregation
Author(s): Huchzermeyer, Marie
Publication Date: July 2001


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


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


Residential Land Market Dynamics, Absentee Lot Owners, and Densification Policies
Author(s): Ward, Peter M.
Publication Date: January 2001


The Case of the Disappearing City
Author(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 Governance of Urban Land
Author(s): Altshuler, Alan A.
Publication Date: January 1994


Urban Vacant Land Redevelopment
Author(s): Goldstein, James, Michael Jensen and Edward Reiskin
Publication Date: December 2001


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


Reviving Environmental Regionalism
Author(s): Foster, Charles H.W.
Publication Date: October 2002



Lincoln Institute Courses, Conferences and Seminars

Comprehensive Planning
Date: May 7, 2003
Location: Lincoln House, Cambridge, Massachusetts




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