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Quote of the Week

Posted By Krista On October 3, 2008 @ 8:27 am In Community, Downtown, Rants, Uncategorized | Comments Disabled

Downtown Voices Coalition ^[1] is a group of about 90 stakeholders that work on issues affecting downtown Phoenix. They had a recent article ^[2] on their web site about Dwell Magazine ^[3] naming Phoenix Exurbs such as Verrado and Anthem ^[4] (I think my home turf of Goodyear ^[5] counts as well) as some of the “Worst in the US”.

The quote that caught my eye? Unrefinery.com ^[6] had this to say about the recognition:

We hesitate to even call Phoenix a city; the decentralized home turf of Allied Waste ^[7] would be best described as a 400-square-mile monument to sprawl, water waste, traffic bottlenecks, and crystal meth. Urban planning sometimes seems esoteric, but Phoenix offers a real-world reminder of why we need it.

Thoughts?

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URLs in this post:

[1] Downtown Voices Coalition: http://downtownvoices.org/

[2] recent article: http://downtownvoices.org/2008/10/02/phoenix-exurb-developments-worst-in-the-us/

[3] Dwell Magazine: http://www.dwell.com/

[4] Anthem: http://www.delwebb.com/anthemarizona/

[5] Goodyear: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodyear,_Arizona

[6] Unrefinery.com: http://www.unrefinery.com/?id=76

[7] Allied Waste: http://www.disposal.com/

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